The End · The Beatles

62 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 1:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-47 -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
THE END · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 10 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 12-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 58-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-37.

CHORUS
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS5OSNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The End?

123 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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