ShepardOfFire · Avenged Sevenfold

171 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 31-33 and 112-122, and 2 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SHEPARDOFFIRE · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 110, 111 and 123.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 110-111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 15 sections: 128 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-171.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART F
PART H
PART L
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
10 groovesBLGES1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ShepardOfFire?

120 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 ShepardOfFire 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?

171 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 ShepardOfFire?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 110, 111 and 123.

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