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Thick And Thin · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 13 OF 71
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
83 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART N
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
PART AC
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIACNCA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thick And Thin on drums

191 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-35, snare through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-49 and toms through bars 50-51, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 28, 35, 48, 60, 69 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-78 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thick And Thin?

176 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 Thick And Thin hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Thick And Thin?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 28, 35, 48, 60, 69 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED