← SONGS

Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 14 OF 84
3-bar fill at bar 7 and 1 more
113 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO 2
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART L
PART AN
PART AA
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMVAAJAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil) on drums

202 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 10:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
10:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

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 20-23, and 18 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 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    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 (City Of Evil) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-17 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 20-146 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil)?

77 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 Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

202 bars, about 10:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 (City Of Evil)?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED