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Brompton Cocktail · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 14 OF 51
Groove H -- Part H
81 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART L
12 groovesJLS1EP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brompton Cocktail on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, snare through bars 39-42, ride through bars 43-54 and snare through bars 55-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-53, 79-85 and 123-129 -- 16.5% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |--x-x-x---x-x---|
Brompton Cocktail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 46, 54, 62, 78, 86, 94 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- J, L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-47 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 47-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-79 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brompton Cocktail?

150 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 Brompton Cocktail hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 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 Brompton Cocktail?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 46, 54, 62, 78, 86, 94 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED