The End Has No End · The Strokes

101 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-36, 46-53 and 62-81 -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 136 BPM
THE END HAS NO END · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 88, 89, 100 and 101.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 100-101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 90 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesBCDGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The End Has No End?

136 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 End Has No End hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The End Has No End?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 88, 89, 100 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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