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Not The American Average · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 38 OF 67
Run L3 · Part L (bars 63-67)
69 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART F
PART O
PART L
PART Y
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS12KFLO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not The American Average on drums

184 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-31, snare through bars 32-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58 and snare through bars 59-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 7 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |------x-x-x---x-|
Not The American Average -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-37 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not The American Average?

185 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Not The American Average hard to play on drums?

47 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The American Average?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED