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In the End, Devastation · Lich King

EXERCISE 5 OF 74
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
54 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCPSAEAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the End, Devastation on drums

211 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-45, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 22-28 and 72-79, and 3 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
In the End, Devastation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-30 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-84 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In the End, Devastation?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In the End, Devastation hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in In the End, Devastation?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED