Crossroads · Avenged Sevenfold

198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-53, 77-91 and 141-143, and 1 more place -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CROSSROADS · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 18, 26, 35 and 36 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 35-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 20 sections: 120 keep time, 42 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-168.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART AB
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesODGJAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crossroads?

180 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 Crossroads hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Crossroads?

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 18, 26, 35 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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