Crimson Day · Avenged Sevenfold

83 bars, 4:11, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-28 and 30-32, and 12 more places -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 68 BPM
CRIMSON DAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 29, 37, 41, 42, 50 and 12 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 2 sections: 22 keep time, 18 are fills, 26 are stops and 16 are silent.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crimson Day?

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

Is Crimson Day hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Crimson Day?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 29, 37, 41, 42, 50 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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