This Means War · Avenged Sevenfold

255 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 11:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
11:20
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 29-43 and 45-50, and 28 more places -- 70.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THIS MEANS WAR · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 10, 26, 44, 51, 60 and 17 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 10 sections: 142 keep time, 31 are fills, 74 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesFBS10ZS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Means War?

90 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 This Means War hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 11:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 This Means War?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 9, 10, 26, 44, 51, 60 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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