Radiant Eclipse · Avenged Sevenfold

177 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-103, 105-111 and 153-159, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RADIANT ECLIPSE · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 34, 88, 96, 104, 112 and 7 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 22 sections: 126 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-41.

PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
16 groovesWJNTP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radiant Eclipse?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Radiant Eclipse hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Radiant Eclipse?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 34, 88, 96, 104, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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