Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008 · Avenged sevenfold

194 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-50 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CRITICAL ACCLAIM | LIVE IN THE LBC 2008 · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 41, 42, 44, 51, 52, 56 and 24 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 22 sections: 73 keep time, 30 are fills, 51 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-164.

COUNT-IN
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AA
PART N
OUTRO
16 groovesAASNFJ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008?

170 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 Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008 hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Critical Acclaim | Live In The LBC 2008?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 41, 42, 44, 51, 52, 56 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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