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Requiem · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 13 OF 44
Groove K -- Part K
106 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART L
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesBSKFD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Requiem on drums

186 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 143 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
143 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-56, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23, 25-27 and 31-32, and 16 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22                 23
    1.....2.....3..... 1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----|------------------|
BD |x-----------------|------x-----------|
Requiem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 74, 91, 117, 123, 131 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-75 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-57 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-80 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Requiem?

143 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Requiem 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Requiem?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 74, 91, 117, 123, 131 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED