Second Heartbeat · Avenged Sevenfold

312 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 8:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
312
LENGTH
8:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-116, 128-133 and 215-228, and 5 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SECOND HEARTBEAT · BAR 103
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 56 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

312 bars across 27 sections: 185 keep time, 62 are fills, 30 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-116.

PART M
PART AD
CHORUS
PART AN
PART AA
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
18 groovesAGADWANM+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Second Heartbeat?

145 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 Second Heartbeat hard to play on drums?

64 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

312 bars, about 8:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 108 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Second Heartbeat?

31 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 312 BARS ANALYSED
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