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Clairvoyant Disease · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 32 OF 45
Run J1 · Chorus (bars 44-92)
100 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
VERSE
PART E
VERSE 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART R
8 groovesJECRH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Clairvoyant Disease on drums

117 bars, 6:41, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:41
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-47 and snare through bars 48-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 48-49, and 1 more place -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 43 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-13 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-44 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Clairvoyant Disease?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Clairvoyant Disease hard to play on drums?

61 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 6:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Clairvoyant Disease?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 43 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED