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Dear God · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 23 OF 26
Groove R
183 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesEAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear God on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70, ride through bars 71-86 and snare through bars 87-94, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98, 100-102 and 104-106, and 20 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
HF |x-------x-------|
Dear God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- S, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-75 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-216 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear God?

140 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 Dear God hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 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 Dear God?

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED