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To Bring About Our End · Azshara

EXERCISE 9 OF 49
Fill at bar 9, 13 and 21 (a small one)
63 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
PART D
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOLDGQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Bring About Our End on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-45, hi-hat through bars 46-49, snare through bars 50-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-113, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48 and 50-81 -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
To Bring About Our End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 3 and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 4-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-30 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To Bring About Our End?

135 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 To Bring About Our End hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 To Bring About Our End?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED