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Not Ready to Die (Perfect version) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 22 OF 67
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 31-33)
60 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
PART X
PART Z
PART S11
PART AC
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 (Perfect version) on drums

138 bars, 9:36, at 54 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
54 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
9:36
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, snare through bars 41-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 25-27 and 44, 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.

    22
    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 (Perfect version) -- 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 10, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-33 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Ready to Die (Perfect version)?

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

Is Not Ready to Die (Perfect version) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 9:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 (Perfect version)?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED