Nobody · Avenged Sevenfold

104 bars, 6:55, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 28-30 and 32-34, and 9 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
NOBODY · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 11, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 17 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 15 sections: 52 keep time, 23 are fills and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-71.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesCEAAIS12+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nobody?

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

Is Nobody hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Nobody?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 11, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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