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Chapter Four · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 5 OF 67
Fill at bar 2 (a small one)
75 / 299 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART F
PART J
PART K
PART O
PART W
PART K
PART O
PART Z
PART J
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAFOZKJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chapter Four on drums

299 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 5:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-71, snare through bars 72-80, toms through bars 81-84 and ride through bars 85-100, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 100, and 2 more places -- 9.7% 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
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Chapter Four -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 24, 56, 72 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-57 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chapter Four?

192 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 Chapter Four hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 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 Chapter Four?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 24, 56, 72 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 299 BARS ANALYSED