Desecrate Through Reverence · Avenged Sevenfold

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 107, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
DESECRATE THROUGH REVERENCE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 32, 35, 36 and 26 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 10 sections: 93 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART V
PART A
OUTRO
9 groovesRAGAGV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desecrate Through Reverence?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Desecrate Through Reverence hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Desecrate Through Reverence?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 32, 35, 36 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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