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The End Of The World · The Cure

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove I -- Part I
53 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART I
PART I
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEIS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The End Of The World on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-51 and snare through bars 52-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 9 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
The End Of The World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 37, 59, 67, 71, 73 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A, E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 15-43 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The End Of The World?

120 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 The World hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The World?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 37, 59, 67, 71, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED