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Burn It Down (City Of Evil) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove H -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
16 groovesHKS23BZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn It Down (City Of Evil) on drums

212 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-36 and ride through bars 37-52, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 31-34 and 79-82, and 6 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---xx--x---xx|
Burn It Down (City Of Evil) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 29, 30, 35, 36 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn It Down (City Of Evil)?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Burn It Down (City Of Evil) hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Burn It Down (City Of Evil)?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 29, 30, 35, 36 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED