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The Stage · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 6 OF 105
Fill at bar 214 (a small one)
68 / 256 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART BK
CHORUS 3
PART S18
PART AX
CHORUS 5
PART BK
OUTRO 2
17 groovesNBKS18AXS+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Stage on drums

256 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
7:35
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-23, snare through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52 and ride through bars 53-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37 and 39, and 14 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
The Stage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, BK -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-215 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Stage?

135 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 The Stage hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 7:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 sittings, about 28 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 The Stage?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED