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In The End · Rush

EXERCISE 18 OF 25
Fill at bar 64 (a small one)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
4 groovesGEAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The End on drums

88 bars, 5:02, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 19 and 29-31, and 12 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 27, 28 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-63 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is In The End?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In The End hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 27, 28 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED