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Avalancha · Héroes del Silencio

EXERCISE 16 OF 26
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 32-34)
100 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesDFBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Avalancha on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-64 and ride through bars 65-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 34-48 and 73-87, and 1 more place -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|
Avalancha -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 49, 64, 72 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-29 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-65 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Avalancha?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Avalancha hard to play on drums?

54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Avalancha?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 49, 64, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED