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Set Me Free · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 14 OF 46
Join Break 2 to Part B (bars 48-50)
113 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2, PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBXAW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set Me Free on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 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
164
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-48, hi-hat through bars 49-79, toms through bars 80-81 and snare through bars 82-87, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 63 and 66-79, and 7 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 48, 64, 65 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-49 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-90 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-123 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-138 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Set Me Free?

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 Set Me Free hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Set Me Free?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 48, 64, 65 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED