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Dear God (Full Version) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Groove G
193 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
PART B
PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMFBS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear God (Full Version) on drums

233 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 3-34, snare through bars 35-55, hi-hat through bars 56-72, snare through bars 73-95, hi-hat through bars 96-116 and silence through bars 117-124, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-114 and 146-233 -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 71 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- M, B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 92-146 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear God (Full Version)?

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 (Full Version) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dear God (Full Version)?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 71 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED