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Avalon · Roxy Music

Avalon · Roxy Music
EXERCISE 18 OF 34
Run G2 · Part G (bars 52-61)
131 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART J
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJGDF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Avalon on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-143.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-26, 62-86 and 112-116 -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x-o-|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Avalon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-31 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-55 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-100 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 125-132 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Avalon?

135 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 Avalon hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED