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MIA · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 7 OF 98
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
91 / 312 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART AD, PART AN
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART M
CHORUS
PART F
PART AD
PART AN
PART AQ
PART AV
OUTRO
14 groovesVFBADAV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MIA on drums

312 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 8:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
312
LENGTH
8:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-50, snare through bars 51-52, ride through bars 53-54, snare through bars 55-60 and ride through bars 61-62, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 163, 179-185 and 187-189, and 6 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    179          180
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----o---o---|o---o---o---|
SD |------------|x-----------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-|----x-x-x-x-|
MIA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- AD, V -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is MIA?

139 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 MIA hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

312 bars, about 8:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 MIA?

19 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 59 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 312 BARS ANALYSED