Not Ready To Die · Avenged Sevenfold

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 51-53 and 117, and 6 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
NOT READY TO DIE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 27 and 18 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 16 sections: 86 keep time, 24 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-146.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART M
PART E
PART V
PART Y
PART AA
PART S13
PART AF
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAHEMVAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Ready To Die?

80 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 Not Ready To Die hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 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 Not Ready To Die?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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