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Girl I Know · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 31 OF 41
Run H1 · Part H (bars 84-90)
141 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAHMS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl I Know on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-40 and ride through bars 41-42, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 27-29, and 11 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 9, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-91 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-127 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Girl I Know?

135 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 Girl I Know hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Girl I Know?

10 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 9, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED