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Shepherd Of Fire · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 37 OF 61
Run G1 · Part G (bars 87-98)
132 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART F
PART L
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesBFLS1G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shepherd Of Fire on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-31, hi-hat through bars 32-56, snare through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-72 and snare through bars 73-77, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-30, 110-120 and 122-127, and 1 more place -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
T1 |----------X-----|----------------|
T2 |----------X---X-|----------------|
FT |-gxxX---------X-|XxxxX-----------|
BD |X---X---x---x---|X---X---x---x---|
Shepherd Of Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 31, 47, 51, 56, 60, 61 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-84 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-87 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-60 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-90 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-105 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shepherd Of Fire?

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 Shepherd Of Fire hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 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 Shepherd Of Fire?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 31, 47, 51, 56, 60, 61 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED