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Almost Easy (Avenged Sevenfold Cover) · Scream Of Nation

EXERCISE 31 OF 60
Run M1 · Part M (bars 41-46)
90 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesGKS16MD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Almost Easy (Avenged Sevenfold Cover) on drums

145 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-28, ride through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 63-69 and 118-121, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|
Almost Easy (Avenged Sevenfold Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- K, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-36 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-77 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 75-92 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Almost Easy (Avenged Sevenfold Cover)?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Almost Easy (Avenged Sevenfold Cover) hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Almost Easy (Avenged Sevenfold Cover)?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED