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Unholy Confessions Best Version · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 19 OF 70
Join Part G to Part I (bars 15-17)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART I
PART D
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
PART D
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
13 groovesNDTKL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unholy Confessions Best Version on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-34, 37-39 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                                               30
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------x-------------------------------x-------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x---------------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------------------------------x-------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---------------x-------x---------------|--------x-------------------------------x---x-------x---x-------|
Unholy Confessions Best Version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 28, 36 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-5 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-17 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-21 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unholy Confessions Best Version?

95 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 Unholy Confessions Best Version hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Unholy Confessions Best Version?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 28, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED