Save Me · Avenged Sevenfold

322 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 10:51 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
322
LENGTH
10:51
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 50 and 65-71, and 13 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SAVE ME · BAR 66
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

51 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 94 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

47 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

322 bars across 32 sections: 161 keep time, 100 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-79.

PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
22 groovesQRACAL+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save Me?

95 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 Save Me hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

322 bars, about 10:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 135 exercises over 42 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 Save Me?

51 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 94 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 322 BARS ANALYSED
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