Slmulation · Avenged sevenfold

229 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-51 and 53, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SLMULATION · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 17, 40, 48, 52, 55 and 38 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 26 sections: 118 keep time, 44 are fills, 31 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-80.

PART W
PART AH
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
21 groovesBBWACAHZ+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slmulation?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slmulation hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Slmulation?

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 17, 40, 48, 52, 55 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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