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Not Ready To Die · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove K -- Part K
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART K
PART M
PART E
PART K
PART V
PART Y
PART AA
PART S13
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAHEMVAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Ready To Die on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 51-53 and 117, and 6 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxxxx-x---x---x-x-x-x-x---------|
Not Ready To Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 27 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-54 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-44 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Ready To Die?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Not Ready To Die hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Not Ready To Die?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED