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The Beginning Of The End · HIM

EXERCISE 11 OF 38
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 34-36)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Beginning Of The End on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-59, hi-hat through bars 60-75 and snare through bars 76-83, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
The Beginning Of The End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 81-133 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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