Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil) · Avenged Sevenfold

202 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 10:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
10:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% 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 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BEAST AND THE HARLOT (CITY OF EVIL) · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 38 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 17 sections: 118 keep time, 44 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART L
PART AN
PART AA
9 groovesMVAAJAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil)?

77 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 Beast And The Harlot (City Of Evil) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

202 bars, about 10:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 (City Of Evil)?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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