Afterlife · Avenged Sevenfold

156 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 40-42, and 5 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AFTERLIFE · BAR 139
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 12, 32, 35, 39, 43 and 12 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 22 sections: 95 keep time, 18 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-109.

PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART W
PART AD
PART AF
PART D
OUTRO
15 groovesHDAFKAD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Afterlife?

110 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 Afterlife hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 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 Afterlife?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 12, 32, 35, 39, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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