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Acid Rain · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDLS1MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acid Rain on drums

160 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 5:26 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-93, snare through bars 94-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-160.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 42-44 and 46-52, and 9 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------|
Acid Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 41, 53, 69, 89, 101 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 25-57 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part M and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-138 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Acid Rain?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Acid Rain hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Acid Rain?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 41, 53, 69, 89, 101 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED