Beast And The Harlot · Avenged Sevenfold

202 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 11 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BEAST AND THE HARLOT · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 31 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 15 sections: 120 keep time, 37 are fills, 18 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART L
PART AL
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesMVZJAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beast And The Harlot?

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

Is Beast And The Harlot hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Beast And The Harlot?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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