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The Wicked End · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 5 OF 66
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S13
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
11 groovesIS13KGN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wicked End on drums

214 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 57-72 and 89-104, and 2 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|
The Wicked End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 85, 86, 87, 88, 143 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Wicked End?

120 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 Wicked End hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wicked End?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 85, 86, 87, 88, 143 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED