Blinded In Chains (City Of Evil) · Avenged Sevenfold

289 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 6:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
289
LENGTH
6:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% 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 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BLINDED IN CHAINS (CITY OF EVIL) · BAR 269
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 38 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
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

289 bars across 24 sections: 172 keep time, 44 are fills, 29 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART X
PART BC
OUTRO 2
19 groovesBCRQBNX+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blinded In Chains (City Of Evil)?

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 (City Of Evil) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

289 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 32 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 Blinded In Chains (City Of Evil)?

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 289 BARS ANALYSED
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