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The Story Ends · Apace

EXERCISE 13 OF 29
Groove H
54 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
8 groovesIDFS13S6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Story Ends on drums

120 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-38 and silence through bars 39-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 55-58 and 77-78, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
The Story Ends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 33, 34, 76, 94 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-88 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Story Ends?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Story Ends hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Story Ends?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 33, 34, 76, 94 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED