God Damn · Avenged Sevenfold

218 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 35-40, and 3 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
GOD DAMN · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 31, 49, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 17 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 21 sections: 133 keep time, 23 are fills, 29 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART V
PART Z
PART AD
PART AG
PART AM
16 groovesDJAGAMV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Damn?

240 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 God Damn hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 God Damn?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 31, 49, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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