To The Gory End · Cancer

164 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 7 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
TO THE GORY END · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 49, 61, 65 and 14 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 14 sections: 104 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDFS1H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To The Gory End?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Gory 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 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To The Gory End?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 49, 61, 65 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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