Avenged Sevenfold · Unwind The Chainsaw

46 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18-20 and 22-23, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AVENGED SEVENFOLD · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 5 sections: 25 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCRPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Avenged Sevenfold?

120 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 Avenged Sevenfold hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Avenged Sevenfold?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 46 BARS ANALYSED
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