A7X Solos · Avenged Sevenfold

174 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-154, 156-158 and 160-161, and 1 more place -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
A7X SOLOS · BAR 149
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 27 are fills and 38 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-67.

PART E
PART N
PART V
PART AH
PART AK
CHORUS
OUTRO
11 groovesASBMEVAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A7X Solos?

125 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 A7X Solos hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A7X Solos?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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