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Strength Of The World · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 19 OF 101
Join Break 11 to Break 12 (bars 52-54)
173 / 364 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 11, BREAK 12
BREAK 11
BREAK 12
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AH
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
28 groovesIABAFAHAG+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 24
LINK · 11
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strength Of The World on drums

364 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 9:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
364
LENGTH
9:06
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, silence through bars 18-31, snare through bars 32-33, silence through bars 34-35 and snare through bars 36-37, and 51 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-96, 112-114 and 116-118, and 19 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    77
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
Strength Of The World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 40, 52, 58, 62, 109 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- I, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-34 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-72 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Strength Of The World?

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

Is Strength Of The World hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

364 bars, about 9:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 Strength Of The World?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 40, 52, 58, 62, 109 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 364 BARS ANALYSED