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A7X Solos · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 22 OF 76
Groove U
87 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART E
PART N
PART V
PART AH
PART AK
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesASBMEVAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A7X Solos on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-12, snare through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-41, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-154, 156-158 and 160-161, and 1 more place -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    149
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
A7X Solos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- BM, AS -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A7X Solos?

125 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 A7X Solos hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 A7X Solos?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED