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Seize The Day · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 20 OF 51
Fill at bar 58
101 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKCFXQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seize The Day on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 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
188
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, ride through bars 39-50, hi-hat through bars 51-74 and ride through bars 75-86, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-57, 87-93 and 95-99, and 2 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|----------------|
HH |----o-------o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|x-x---x---------|
Seize The Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 22, 38, 46, 50, 58 and 14 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 -- K, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-51 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-101 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 109-141 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seize The Day?

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 Seize The Day hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Seize The Day?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 22, 38, 46, 50, 58 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED