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I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
2-bar fill at bar 116
120 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART S1
PART E
VERSE
VERSE 2
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKPES11G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 on drums

153 bars, 9:37, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
9:37
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-21, silence through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33 and snare through bars 34-37, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-71 and 82-89 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-X-x-x-x-X-x-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |xxxxXxxxxxxxXxxx|
I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 45, 116 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- K, P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-71 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-90 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Won't See You Tonight Part 1?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 9:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Won't See You Tonight Part 1?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 33, 45, 116 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED