Creating God · Avenged Sevenfold

200 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, 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

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

200

LENGTH

5:19

DIFFICULTY

60/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-13, hi-hat through bars 14-33, snare through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-69 and snare through bars 70-133, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-49, 70-85 and 116-131, and 1 more place -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 29, 30 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- R, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Break and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
6. Bars 22-86 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 82-92 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through Part T and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.