Gunslinger · Avenged Sevenfold

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
GUNSLINGER · BAR 23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 10 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 6 sections: 31 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-21.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKIBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gunslinger?

82 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 Gunslinger hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 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 Gunslinger?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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