Betrayed · Avenged Sevenfold

220 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 87-94 and 103-104, and 12 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BETRAYED · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 58 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 18 sections: 137 keep time, 64 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART I
CHORUS 3
PART AI
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGIAIEA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Betrayed?

130 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 Betrayed hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Betrayed?

22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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