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Hail to the King (E standard) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 34 OF 35
Fill at bar 144 (a small one)
151 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDPBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hail to the King (E standard) on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 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
151
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-112, toms through bars 113-125, hi-hat through bars 126-144 and kick and crashes through bars 145-151.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-27 and 29-31, and 31 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hail to the King (E standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 40, 47, 48 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Hail to the King (E standard)?

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 (E standard) hard to play on drums?

42 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?

151 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Hail to the King (E standard)?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 40, 47, 48 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED