IT Is The End · Ice Nine Kills, Less Than Jake, Fenix TX, JR Wasilewski, Buddy Schaub, Will Salazar

173 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 64-66, and 5 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
IT IS THE END · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 44, 46, 49 and 33 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 19 sections: 72 keep time, 39 are fills, 23 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
12 groovesFACARPS18+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is IT Is The End?

150 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 Is 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 IT Is The End?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 44, 46, 49 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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