Burn It Down (City Of Evil) · Avenged Sevenfold

212 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 31-34 and 79-82, and 6 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BURN IT DOWN (CITY OF EVIL) · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 29, 30, 35, 36 and 17 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 33 sections: 102 keep time, 24 are fills, 13 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO
16 groovesHKS23BZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn It Down (City Of Evil)?

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 (City Of Evil) hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Burn It Down (City Of Evil)?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 29, 30, 35, 36 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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