"Jade Helm" · Avenged sevenfold

244 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 4:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 6 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
"JADE HELM" · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 22 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 46-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 23 sections: 147 keep time, 28 are fills, 14 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 200-215.

CHORUS
PART A
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AJ
PART AR
PART AO
21 groovesEAAOAJAR+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Jade Helm"?

180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 "Jade Helm" hard to play on drums?

40 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 17 sittings, about 30 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 "Jade Helm"?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 31, 32, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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