Hail To The King (better drums) · Avenged Sevenfold

144 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25, and 30 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
HAIL TO THE KING (BETTER DRUMS) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 47, 48, 56 and 11 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 13 sections: 103 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-39.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEDPFB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hail To The King (better drums)?

118 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 Hail To The King (better drums) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 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 Hail To The King (better drums)?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 47, 48, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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