Coming Home · Avenged Sevenfold

282 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-45, 49-53 and 57-61, and 37 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
COMING HOME · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 48, 56, 62, 64, 67, 68 and 26 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

282 bars across 9 sections: 197 keep time, 32 are fills, 28 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 233-255.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFAOBS1O+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coming Home?

178 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 Coming Home 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 Coming Home?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 48, 56, 62, 64, 67, 68 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED
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