← SONGS

Danger Line · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 14 OF 50
Groove I -- Part I
108 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART J
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNJADIH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Danger Line on drums

196 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-34, hi-hat through bars 35-52, ride through bars 53-68, snare through bars 69-78, hi-hat through bars 79-96 and ride through bars 97-115, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-67, 97-103 and 105-111, and 2 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    53
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Danger Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 68, 104, 116, 132, 157, 158 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-159 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-19 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 25-69 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-105 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Danger Line?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Danger Line hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Danger Line?

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 68, 104, 116, 132, 157, 158 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED