Seize The Day · Avenged Sevenfold

188 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-57, 87-93 and 95-99, and 2 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SEIZE THE DAY · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 22, 38, 46, 50, 58 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 17 sections: 115 keep time, 20 are fills, 40 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-37.

PART C
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKCFXQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seize The Day?

140 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 Seize The Day hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 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 Seize The Day?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 22, 38, 46, 50, 58 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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