The End Of Heartache · Killswitch Engage

153 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-72, 97-111 and 137-144 -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE END OF HEARTACHE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 96, 112, 116, 120 and 1 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 13 sections: 99 keep time, 7 are fills, 29 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-78.

PART A
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJCHOA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The End Of Heartache?

124 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 Of Heartache hard to play on drums?

57 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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 Of Heartache?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 96, 112, 116, 120 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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