The Beginning Of The End · HIM

151 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-43, 68-75 and 116-122, and 1 more place -- 21.4% 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
THE BEGINNING OF THE END · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 112, 114, 115, 123, 131, 132 and 10 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 114-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 131-133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 9 sections: 115 keep time, 16 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-111.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGBDC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Beginning Of 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 The Beginning Of The End hard to play on drums?

46 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Beginning Of The End?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 112, 114, 115, 123, 131, 132 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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