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Beast And The Harlot · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 2 OF 78
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART L
PART AL
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesMVZJAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beast And The Harlot on drums

202 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
88/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-19 and snare through bars 20-29, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 11 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------x--------x-----x--------|
Beast And The Harlot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, Z -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-146 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beast And The Harlot?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Beast And The Harlot hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Beast And The Harlot?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED