Thick And Thin · Avenged Sevenfold

191 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
THICK AND THIN · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 28, 35, 48, 60, 69 and 11 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 14 sections: 126 keep time, 17 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-93.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART N
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
PART AC
PART C
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIACNCA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thick And Thin?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Thick And Thin hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thick And Thin?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 28, 35, 48, 60, 69 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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