The Sadness Will Never End · Bring Me The Horizon

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 38 and 42-43, and 2 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
THE SADNESS WILL NEVER END · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 and 44 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 26-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 17 sections: 42 keep time, 50 are fills, 4 are stops and 21 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AK
PART AO
PART BB
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHBBWS1AK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sadness Will Never End?

102 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 Sadness Will Never End hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Sadness Will Never End?

24 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 and 44 more.

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