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The End · The Beatles

EXERCISE 11 OF 27
8-bar fill at bar 12
34 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS5OSNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The End on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, toms through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-11 and toms through bars 12-19, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- S, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part N and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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