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Avon · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 36 OF 43
4-bar fill at bar 83
103 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Avon on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-83, toms through bars 84-86, ride through bars 87-102 and snare through bars 103-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 26-27, and 13 more places -- 28.2% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Avon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 15 more.

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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Avon?

132 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 Avon hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Avon?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED