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Cosmic · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 6 OF 56
Join Part B to Part C (bars 15-17)
84 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART L
PART R
PART AG
OUTRO
10 groovesAQAGBRL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cosmic on drums

220 bars, 14:40, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
14:40
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, silence through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43, ride through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 95-99, 101-104 and 107-111, and 10 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    96
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |-------x-------x-------x-------x|
SD |---g-g-----------------X--------|
BD |-------x------------------------|
Cosmic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 61, 67, 73 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-25 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cosmic?

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

Is Cosmic hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 14:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 23 sittings, about 23 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 Cosmic?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 61, 67, 73 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED