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An Epic Of Time Wasted · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 88 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART E, PART AO
PART A
PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART AO
PART AW
BREAK
OUTRO
13 groovesBEYLAOE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Epic Of Time Wasted on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-27, hi-hat through bars 28-32, snare through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 3 more places -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------xx-x------------x---|
An Epic Of Time Wasted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-48 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is An Epic Of Time Wasted?

106 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 An Epic Of Time Wasted hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 An Epic Of Time Wasted?

23 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED