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Doing Time · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART A
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesHFDJA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doing Time on drums

134 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40 and snare through bars 41-42, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 30, and 16 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 20, 40, 50, 62, 72 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-108 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-134 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Doing Time?

160 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 Doing Time hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Doing Time?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 20, 40, 50, 62, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED