So Far Away · Avenged Sevenfold

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12-14, and 13 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
SO FAR AWAY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 19 and 39 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 38 keep time, 45 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-45.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDANGQS7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Far Away?

76 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 So Far Away 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 So Far Away?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 19 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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