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Hail To The King (better drums) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 21 OF 41
2-bar fill at bar 47 and 1 more
114 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEDPFB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hail To The King (better drums) on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-112, toms through bars 113-125 and hi-hat through bars 126-144.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25, and 30 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hail To The King (better drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 47, 48, 56 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-59 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-117 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hail To The King (better drums)?

118 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 Hail To The King (better drums) hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Hail To The King (better drums)?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 47, 48, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED