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Slmulation · Avenged sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 114
Groove W -- Part W
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0 / 114 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
PART W
PART AH
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
21 groovesBBWACAHZ+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 6
JOIN · 20
LINK · 7
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slmulation on drums

229 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, silence through bars 30-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-51 and 53, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|
Slmulation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 17, 40, 48, 52, 55 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 91 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 -- W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-77 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slmulation?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slmulation hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Slmulation?

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 17, 40, 48, 52, 55 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED