To the End · My Chemical Romance

115 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 32 and 59-61, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
TO THE END · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 28, 33, 34, 50, 52 and 19 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 61 keep time, 25 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-17.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART I
PART U
PART X
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGUXBM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To the End?

163 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 To the End hard to play on drums?

64 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 To the End?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 28, 33, 34, 50, 52 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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