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Avalanche · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 40 OF 42
Join Part S to Part V (bars 121-123)
129 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, PART V
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIPVS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Avalanche on drums

163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-19, silence through bars 20-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40, snare through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 15 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 46 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 -- C, I -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-35 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-99 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-130 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Avalanche?

160 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 Avalanche hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:05 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 Avalanche?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED