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Unbound (The Wild Ride) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 6 OF 53
Groove D
87 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAFACSV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unbound (The Wild Ride) on drums

182 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-54 and ride through bars 55-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 7-10 and 17-18, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------x--------------x--------|
Unbound (The Wild Ride) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 42, 56, 86, 98, 102 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unbound (The Wild Ride)?

140 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 Unbound (The Wild Ride) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 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 Unbound (The Wild Ride)?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 42, 56, 86, 98, 102 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED