ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The End on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 150
LENGTH: 5:00
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, toms through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80, toms through bars 81-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-92, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-40, 57-63 and 65-72, and 1 more place -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----x---------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|x-----x-----x---------------x---|

The End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 64, 86, 87 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Bars 92-133 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The End?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 End hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 End?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 64, 86, 87 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED