Critical Acclaim (Live LBC) · Avenged Sevenfold

184 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 8:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetalUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 38 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
CRITICAL ACCLAIM (LIVE LBC) · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 48, 53 and 24 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 20 sections: 74 keep time, 30 are fills, 47 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-148.

PART H
PART P
PART U
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AK
PART J
OUTRO
14 groovesZJUAKAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Critical Acclaim (Live LBC)?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Critical Acclaim (Live LBC) hard to play on drums?

56 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 LBC)?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 48, 53 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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