Blinded In Chains · Avenged Sevenfold

300 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 6:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 73-79 and 113-114, and 2 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BLINDED IN CHAINS · BAR 270
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

300 bars across 26 sections: 165 keep time, 49 are fills, 40 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-134.

CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
18 groovesEBLZSH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinded In Chains?

192 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 Blinded In Chains hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 32 sittings, about 26 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 Blinded In Chains?

19 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 43 more.

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