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"Jade Helm" · Avenged sevenfold

EXERCISE 29 OF 86
Join Part A to Part M (bars 51-53)
111 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART M
CHORUS
PART A
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AJ
PART AR
PART AO
21 groovesEAAOAJAR+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 7
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Jade Helm" on drums

244 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 4:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
40/100

toms through bars 1-97, silence through bars 98-105, hi-hat through bars 106-111, snare through bars 112-114, silence through bars 115-119 and toms through bars 120-134, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 6 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
T2 |x-----x-----|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----|
"Jade Helm" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- A, AO -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-23 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-74 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Jade Helm"?

180 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is "Jade Helm" hard to play on drums?

40 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 17 sittings, about 30 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 "Jade Helm"?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED