Save Me (cleaned) · 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
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 73 and 75, and 7 more places -- 7.1% 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 (CLEANED) · BAR 66
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

48 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 24, 32 and 91 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

44 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

322 bars across 34 sections: 163 keep time, 97 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-79.

CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
25 groovesQZAUBT+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save Me (cleaned)?

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 (cleaned) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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 137 exercises over 46 sittings, about 25 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 (cleaned)?

48 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 24, 32 and 91 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 322 BARS ANALYSED
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