Burn It Down · Avenged Sevenfold

214 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 32-34 and 80-82, and 7 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BURN IT DOWN · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 29, 30, 35 and 42 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 28 sections: 112 keep time, 48 are fills, 21 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-98.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
CHORUS 4
16 groovesKPHAJD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn It Down?

176 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 Burn It Down hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Burn It Down?

25 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 29, 30, 35 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Avenged Sevenfold drum parts

EVERY AVENGED SEVENFOLD CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →