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G · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 15 OF 86
Groove H -- Part H
63 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART H
PART N
PART R
CHORUS
PART AI
PART A
PART N
PART Z
CHORUS 2
9 groovesADARNZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play G on drums

164 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-105, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 26 and 31, and 19 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- Q, AD -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is G?

180 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 G hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 G?

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED