ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sadness Will Never End on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 102 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 129
LENGTH: 5:02
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-39, snare through bars 40-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x-xx|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x-|--x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-----|

The Sadness Will Never End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part S2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
and 16 more sittings after that.

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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED