Sidewinder · Avenged Sevenfold

212 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 6:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:52
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 153-155, 157-159 and 161-163, and 12 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
SIDEWINDER · BAR 153
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 50, 54, 58 and 21 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 20 sections: 139 keep time, 27 are fills, 14 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 152-212.

PART C
PART I
PART X
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAYCIUX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sidewinder?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sidewinder hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sidewinder?

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 50, 54, 58 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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