Shepherd Of Fire · Avenged Sevenfold

168 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-30, 110-120 and 122-127, and 1 more place -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SHEPHERD OF FIRE · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 31, 47, 51, 56, 60, 61 and 16 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 13 sections: 110 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-168.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART F
PART L
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesBFLS1G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shepherd Of Fire?

125 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 Shepherd Of Fire hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 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 Shepherd Of Fire?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 31, 47, 51, 56, 60, 61 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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