Tonight The World Dies · Avenged Sevenfold

153 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32, 41-55 and 77-91 -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
TONIGHT THE WORLD DIES · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 56, 68, 76, 92, 100 and 12 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 7 sections: 100 keep time, 18 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-39.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHAPQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tonight The World Dies?

135 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 Tonight The World Dies hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Tonight The World Dies?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 56, 68, 76, 92, 100 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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