Sunny Disposition · Avenged Sevenfold

261 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 9:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
9:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-57, 59-61 and 63-65, and 8 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SUNNY DISPOSITION · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 74 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 5-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

261 bars across 19 sections: 98 keep time, 80 are fills, 23 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-70.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART BH
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAHS19AAABH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunny Disposition?

127 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 Sunny Disposition 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 9:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Sunny Disposition?

21 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED
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