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To the End · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove G -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART I
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To the End on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-28, ride through bars 29-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
To the End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-54 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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