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Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008 · Avenged sevenfold

EXERCISE 21 OF 83
Run J1 · Part J (bars 45-59)
99 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AA
PART N
OUTRO
16 groovesAASNFJ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008 on drums

194 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52, snare through bars 53-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-77, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-50 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 18.4% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 41, 42, 44, 51, 52, 56 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S6 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-158 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 56-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008?

170 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 Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008 hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 41, 42, 44, 51, 52, 56 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED