Mattel · Avenged Sevenfold

176 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
MATTEL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 79-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 39 are fills, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-117.

CHORUS
PART J
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART J
BREAK 2
PART AF
PART AL
PART AQ
OUTRO
11 groovesEJAFBCAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mattel?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mattel hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 25 sittings, about 23 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 Mattel?

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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