Chapter Four · Avenged Sevenfold

299 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 5:43 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 upIntermediate
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 100, and 2 more places -- 9.7% 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
CHAPTER FOUR · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 24, 56, 72 and 13 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

299 bars across 16 sections: 147 keep time, 19 are fills, 110 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-115.

PART F
PART J
PART K
PART O
PART W
PART K
PART O
PART Z
PART J
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAFOZKJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chapter Four?

192 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 Chapter Four hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Chapter Four?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 24, 56, 72 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 299 BARS ANALYSED
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