The Art Of Subconscious Illusion (Accurate Tab) · Avenged Sevenfold

187 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 21 and 23, and 11 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THE ART OF SUBCONSCIOUS ILLUSION (ACCURATE TAB) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 4, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35 and 56 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 35-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 16 sections: 52 keep time, 62 are fills, 54 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AQ
PART AW
CHORUS 3
PART AW
PART AR
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFNAWARAQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Art Of Subconscious Illusion (Accurate Tab)?

190 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 The Art Of Subconscious Illusion (Accurate Tab) hard to play on drums?

51 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Art Of Subconscious Illusion (Accurate Tab)?

30 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 4, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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