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Radiant Eclipse · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove W -- Chorus
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PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
16 groovesWJNTP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Radiant Eclipse on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-34, snare through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-50, snare through bars 51-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-103, 105-111 and 153-159, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
RD |----x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Radiant Eclipse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 34, 88, 96, 104, 112 and 7 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 -- W, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-62 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-144 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Radiant Eclipse?

125 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 Radiant Eclipse hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Radiant Eclipse?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 34, 88, 96, 104, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED