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So Far Away · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Groove Q -- Part Q
47 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDANGQS7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Far Away on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-19, toms through bars 20-21 and ride through bars 22-23, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12-14, and 13 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------gx-x-----|
So Far Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 19 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-84 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Far Away?

76 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 So Far Away 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 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 So Far Away?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 19 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED