Breaking Their Hold · Avenged Sevenfold

54 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:16
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BREAKING THEIR HOLD · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 29 and 11 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 4 sections: 28 keep time, 17 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART A
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMCGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breaking Their Hold?

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

Is Breaking Their Hold hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Breaking Their Hold?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 29 and 11 more.

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