The End Is Near - Primal Fear · Primal Fear

167 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 11 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THE END IS NEAR - PRIMAL FEAR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 50 and 18 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 24 are fills, 41 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDGSAM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The End Is Near - Primal Fear?

155 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 End Is Near - Primal Fear hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 End Is Near - Primal Fear?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 50 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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