Avantasia · Avantasia

175 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-15 and 17-22, and 17 more places -- 72.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
AVANTASIA · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 23, 24, 36 and 24 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 3 sections: 140 keep time, 30 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-35.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Avantasia?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Avantasia hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Avantasia?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 23, 24, 36 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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