Exist · Avenged Sevenfold

564 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 16:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
564
LENGTH
16:03
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 424-426, 428-430 and 432-434, and 13 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EXIST · BAR 425
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

41 fills to learn, played 106 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 30, 36, 37 and 100 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

37 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

564 bars across 29 sections: 283 keep time, 106 are fills, 22 are stops and 116 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 537-554.

CHORUS
PART CA
PART CA
PART EF
25 groovesS16EFCABDF+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exist?

140 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 Exist hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

564 bars, about 16:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 146 exercises over 51 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 Exist?

41 fills to learn, played 106 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 30, 36, 37 and 100 more.

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