Doing Time · Avenged Sevenfold

134 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 30, and 16 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DOING TIME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 20, 40, 50, 62, 72 and 9 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 15 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-96.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesHFDJA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doing Time?

160 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 Doing Time hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Doing Time?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 20, 40, 50, 62, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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