Almost Easy · Avenged Sevenfold

155 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 65-71 and 124-127, and 1 more place -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
ALMOST EASY · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 27 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 16 sections: 83 keep time, 33 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART P
PART R
PART T
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesGLJDS16+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Almost Easy?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Almost Easy hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 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 Almost Easy?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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