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Afterlife · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 22 OF 81
Groove N (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART W
PART AD
PART AF
PART D
OUTRO
15 groovesHDAFKAD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Afterlife on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, snare through bars 31-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 40-42, and 5 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    139
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Afterlife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 12, 32, 35, 39, 43 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- H, AF -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Afterlife?

110 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 Afterlife hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 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 Afterlife?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 12, 32, 35, 39, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED