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STATICA · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 5 OF 32
Groove C
74 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
BREAK
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART G
PART Q
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDZGS10Q+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play STATICA on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-18, ride through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-28 and ride through bars 29-30, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-18, 21-28 and 51-58, and 1 more place -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------x-------X-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-x---x-x---|
STATICA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 94, 120, 128 and 132.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, Z -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-89 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-101 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is STATICA?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 STATICA hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in STATICA?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 94, 120, 128 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED