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Bat Country (Live) [Fixed Solo] · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 26 OF 59
Join Part K to Part I (bars 35-37)
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PART D
PART K
PART I
CHORUS
PART D
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPKDYAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bat Country (Live) [Fixed Solo] on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-23 and toms through bars 24-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-62 and 129-142 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------------------------|
Bat Country (Live) [Fixed Solo] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- P, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-23 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-63 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bat Country (Live) [Fixed Solo]?

120 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 (Live) [Fixed Solo] hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 (Live) [Fixed Solo]?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED