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Planets · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
102 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDKPIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Planets on drums

197 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-46, snare through bars 47-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-70, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-46, and 6 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Planets -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 64, 78, 86 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-60 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Planets?

140 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 Planets hard to play on drums?

54 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?

197 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Planets?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 64, 78, 86 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED