Danger Line · Avenged Sevenfold

196 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-67, 97-103 and 105-111, and 2 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 182 BPM
DANGER LINE · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 68, 104, 116, 132, 157, 158 and 24 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 157-164 · LANDS ON BAR 165 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 15 sections: 135 keep time, 30 are fills, 9 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-148.

PART I
PART J
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNJADIH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Danger Line?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Danger Line hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Danger Line?

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 68, 104, 116, 132, 157, 158 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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