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Betrayed · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 25 OF 96
Groove S -- Part S
128 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART I
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AI
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGIAIEA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 14
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Betrayed on drums

220 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 87-94 and 103-104, and 12 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
Betrayed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Betrayed?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Betrayed hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 21 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 Betrayed?

22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED