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The Fight · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
5-bar fill at bar 22 and 1 more
60 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAHQENFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fight on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-22, ride through bars 23-46, hi-hat through bars 47-59, ride through bars 60-77 and snare through bars 78-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 27-33 and 64-70, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |xx-x-x--xx-x-x--|xx-x-x--xx-x-x--|
The Fight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 22, 23 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-47 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-102 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Fight?

100 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 The Fight hard to play on drums?

60 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Fight?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 17, 22, 23 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED