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Victim · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 6 OF 49
Fill at bar 67 and 91 (a small one)
45 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK 2
12 groovesHPESS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victim on drums

121 bars, 8:18, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
8:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-15, silence through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 52-54, and 4 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x---|
Victim -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 38, 43, 51, 59, 63 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 13-27 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Victim?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Victim hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 8:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Victim?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 38, 43, 51, 59, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED