The Wicked End · Avenged Sevenfold

214 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 57-72 and 89-104, and 2 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE WICKED END · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 85, 86, 87, 88, 143 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 85-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 145 · LANDS ON BAR 146

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 21 sections: 133 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-72.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S13
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
11 groovesIS13KGN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wicked End?

120 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 The Wicked End hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 The Wicked End?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 85, 86, 87, 88, 143 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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