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Is This The End? · Creed

EXERCISE 23 OF 53
Groove P -- Part P
54 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART P, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Is This The End? on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, silence through bars 30-36, hi-hat through bars 37-55, snare through bars 56-65 and ride through bars 66-75, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--------xx-----|
Is This The End? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B, R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-37 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-51 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED