Darkness Surrounding · Avenged Sevenfold

187 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 139-141, 143-145 and 163-165, and 2 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
DARKNESS SURROUNDING · BARS 139-140
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 13, 21, 33, 48, 49, 51 and 50 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 19 sections: 98 keep time, 56 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-110.

PART H
PART R
PART AA
PART AH
PART AU
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesBLAHAUBH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkness Surrounding?

184 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 Darkness Surrounding hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Darkness Surrounding?

26 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 13, 21, 33, 48, 49, 51 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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