Save Me (Original) · Avenged Sevenfold

643 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 10:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
643
LENGTH
10:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 27, and 62 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
SAVE ME (ORIGINAL) · BAR 89
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

46 fills to learn, played 124 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 118 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

42 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

643 bars across 32 sections: 279 keep time, 124 are fills, 166 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-141.

CHORUS
PART H
PART U
23 groovesDHUFA+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save Me (Original)?

192 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Save Me (Original) hard to play on drums?

62 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

643 bars, about 10:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 134 exercises over 37 sittings, about 28 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 (Original)?

46 fills to learn, played 124 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 118 more.

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