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Not Ready To Die (Live in Oslo) · Avenged sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove L -- Part L
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
PART X
PART Z
PART S11
PART AC
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesELUAEZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Ready To Die (Live in Oslo) on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
144
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46, snare through bars 47-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 31-33 and 50, and 4 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.

    28
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxxxx-x---x---x-x-------x-------|
Not Ready To Die (Live in Oslo) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 30, 34, 35 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-39 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Ready To Die (Live in Oslo)?

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 (Live in Oslo) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 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 Not Ready To Die (Live in Oslo)?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 30, 34, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED