Witness The End · Fit for a King

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 7 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WITNESS THE END · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 31, 35, 43 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 19 sections: 70 keep time, 24 are fills, 8 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-42.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
PART S14
PART D
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesIDSOF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Witness The End?

130 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 Witness The End hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Witness The End?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 31, 35, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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