Second Heartbeat (lwk better) · 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.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
312
LENGTH
8:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-108, 111-116 and 127-133, and 6 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SECOND HEARTBEAT (LWK BETTER) · BAR 103
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 59 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 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

312 bars across 25 sections: 187 keep time, 65 are fills, 29 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 143-157.

PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART R
PART AE
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
18 groovesAKWAEHR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Second Heartbeat (lwk better)?

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 (lwk better) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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 104 exercises over 26 sittings, about 29 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 (lwk better)?

30 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 312 BARS ANALYSED
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