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Bat Country · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 11 OF 63
Groove C
72 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBSMATAK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bat Country on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-66, toms through bars 67-72 and snare through bars 73-74, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-62 and 129-135, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------x---------------|
SD |x-g-g-g-x-g-g-g-x-g-g-g-x-g-g-g-|
BD |x---x-------x---x---------------|
Bat Country -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-126 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-49 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bat Country?

125 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 Bat Country hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bat Country?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED