Set Me Free · Avenged Sevenfold

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 63 and 66-79, and 7 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SET ME FREE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 48, 64, 65 and 15 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 21 are fills, 58 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBXAW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Set Me Free?

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 Set Me Free hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Set Me Free?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 48, 64, 65 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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