Dear God · Avenged Sevenfold

216 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98, 100-102 and 104-106, and 20 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEAR GOD · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 48-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 6 sections: 173 keep time, 26 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-216.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesEAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear God?

140 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 Dear God hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 Dear God?

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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