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Beautiful Morning · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 9 OF 78
Groove G
62 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART S8
PART AM
PART AS
OUTRO
11 groovesFCBAMM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beautiful Morning on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, toms through bars 12-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-43, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
HF |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Beautiful Morning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 33, 44, 45, 48, 49 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-46 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beautiful Morning?

132 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 Beautiful Morning hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Beautiful Morning?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 33, 44, 45, 48, 49 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED