Bat Country · Avenged Sevenfold

159 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-62 and 129-135, and 1 more place -- 16.7% 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
BAT COUNTRY · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 40 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 12 sections: 95 keep time, 46 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-86.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBSMATAK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bat Country?

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 Bat Country hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 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 Bat Country?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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