The Bitter End · Sum 41

148 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 33-35 and 53-54, and 11 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 204 BPM
THE BITTER END · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 7, 12, 13, 25, 28 and 37 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 13 sections: 72 keep time, 44 are fills, 20 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

PART E
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMSWEH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bitter End?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Bitter End hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Bitter End?

13 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 3, 7, 12, 13, 25, 28 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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