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Critical Acclaim (Live LBC) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 5 OF 91
Groove E -- Outro 2
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PART E
PART H
PART P
PART U
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AK
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesZJUAKAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 18
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Critical Acclaim (Live LBC) on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 8:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-65, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 38 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Critical Acclaim (Live LBC) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 48, 53 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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, Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-44 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Critical Acclaim (Live LBC)?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Critical Acclaim (Live LBC) hard to play on drums?

56 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 LBC)?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 48, 53 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED