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It Ends Tonight · All-American Rejects

EXERCISE 7 OF 21
Groove D
55 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesES1ACS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Ends Tonight on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-60, silence through bars 61-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37-39 and 41-43, and 8 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
It Ends Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 40 and 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It Ends Tonight?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is It Ends Tonight hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 It Ends Tonight?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 40 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED