Cosmic · Avenged Sevenfold

220 bars, 14:40, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
14:40
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 95-99, 101-104 and 107-111, and 10 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
COSMIC · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 61, 67, 73 and 14 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 12 sections: 174 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-220.

PART B
PART B
PART L
PART R
PART AG
OUTRO
10 groovesAQAGBRL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cosmic?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cosmic hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

220 bars, about 14:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 23 sittings, about 23 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 Cosmic?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 61, 67, 73 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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