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Tonight The World Dies · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHAPQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tonight The World Dies on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32, 41-55 and 77-91 -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--g-----x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-x---------|
Tonight The World Dies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 56, 68, 76, 92, 100 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 111-125 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tonight The World Dies?

135 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 Tonight The World Dies hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Tonight The World Dies?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 56, 68, 76, 92, 100 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED