M.I.A. · Avenged Sevenfold

236 bars, 12:38, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
12:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65 and 71, and 17 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
M.I.A. · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 18, 22, 25, 26, 32, 33 and 70 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 40-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 17 sections: 129 keep time, 76 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-17.

PART B
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AI
PART AO
PART AR
PART Y
OUTRO
14 groovesWEAWBAO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is M.I.A.?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is M.I.A. hard to play on drums?

57 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 12:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 M.I.A.?

23 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 18, 22, 25, 26, 32, 33 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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