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Its snowing like the end of the world Ending · Krobak

EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Groove K -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDKS1BCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Its snowing like the end of the world Ending on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-48 and ride through bars 49-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33, 35-39 and 41-46 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x---|
HH |gggggggggggggggg|ooooggggoooooooo|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |g---------------|----------------|
Its snowing like the end of the world Ending -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 56 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-33 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Its snowing like the end of the world Ending?

103 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 Its snowing like the end of the world Ending hard to play on drums?

54 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Its snowing like the end of the world Ending?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 56 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED