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Eternal Rest · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 19 OF 51
Groove I -- Part I
77 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART T
PART A
PART F
PART I
PART J
PART N
PART T
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS12ATNK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Rest on drums

157 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45, ride through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57 and snare through bars 58-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-31 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 41, 62, 80 and 2 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eternal Rest?

190 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 Eternal Rest hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Eternal Rest?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 41, 62, 80 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED