Nightmare · Avenged Sevenfold

209 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67, 69 and 71-73, and 7 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NIGHTMARE · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 36, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49 and 42 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 19 sections: 100 keep time, 48 are fills, 15 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-113.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART N
PART N
PART S
PART E
PART AC
CHORUS
12 groovesAGENSS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightmare?

130 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 Nightmare hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 Nightmare?

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 36, 40, 43, 47, 48, 49 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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