...Is The Path to End It All · Naegleria

132 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-14, and 3 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
...IS THE PATH TO END IT ALL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 82 keep time, 19 are fills, 10 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART M
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesAJFMR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ...Is The Path to End It All?

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

Is ...Is The Path to End It All hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 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 ...Is The Path to End It All?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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