Is This The End? · Creed

106 bars, 5:39, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 10, and 7 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
IS THIS THE END? · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 36, 48, 52, 53, 55 and 21 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 14 sections: 53 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

PART D
PART G
BREAK
PART G
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesRGDPF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Is This The End??

75 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 Is This The End? hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 This The End??

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 36, 48, 52, 53, 55 and 21 more.

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