Requiem · Avenged Sevenfold

186 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 143 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23, 25-27 and 31-32, and 16 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
REQUIEM · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 74, 91, 117, 123, 131 and 2 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 20 sections: 76 keep time, 8 are fills, 69 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-40.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesBSKFD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Requiem?

143 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Requiem hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Requiem?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 74, 91, 117, 123, 131 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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