← SONGS

Sunny Disposition · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 7 OF 88
Groove S
74 / 261 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART BH
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAHS19AAABH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunny Disposition on drums

261 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 9:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
9:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-71, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-57, 59-61 and 63-65, and 8 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Sunny Disposition -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 74 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AH, AA -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Sunny Disposition?

127 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 Sunny Disposition 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 9:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Sunny Disposition?

21 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED