The End Of Human Race · Dark Funeral

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-48, 50 and 52-57, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE END OF HUMAN RACE · BARS 46-47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 73 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time and 79 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-57.

PART B
PART O
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesACBOAZBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The End Of Human Race?

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 Of Human Race hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Of Human Race?

18 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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