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The End Is Near - Primal Fear · Primal Fear

EXERCISE 5 OF 51
Groove G -- Part G
104 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The End Is Near - Primal Fear on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-90, toms through bars 91-98, hi-hat through bars 99-148, snare through bars 149-150 and hi-hat through bars 151-167.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The End Is Near - Primal Fear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-52 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-94 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-135 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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