St. James · Avenged Sevenfold

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-15 and 19, and 8 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ST. JAMES · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 30 and 18 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJPAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is St. James?

90 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 St. James 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 St. James?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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