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Roman Sky · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 38 OF 41
Fill at bar 106 (a small one)
71 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
PART A
BREAK 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJAIS5F+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roman Sky on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-27, silence through bars 28-44, toms through bars 45-52, snare through bars 53-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65, and 11 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Roman Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 48, 52, 60, 69, 70 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Roman Sky?

130 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Roman Sky hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Roman Sky?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 48, 52, 60, 69, 70 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED