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Buried Alive · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 13 OF 77
Run C1 · Part C (bars 7-20)
117 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART J
PART P
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQJPGZ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Buried Alive on drums

208 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-57, hi-hat through bars 58-85 and ride through bars 86-93, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 115-117 and 120-121, and 16 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    116
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Buried Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 47 and 28 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 -- Q, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-21 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-99 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Buried Alive?

140 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 Buried Alive hard to play on drums?

57 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Buried Alive?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 47 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED