Unbound (The Wild Ride) · Avenged Sevenfold

182 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 7-10 and 17-18, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
UNBOUND (THE WILD RIDE) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 42, 56, 86, 98, 102 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 12 sections: 148 keep time, 8 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-33.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAFACSV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unbound (The Wild Ride)?

140 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 Unbound (The Wild Ride) hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 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 Unbound (The Wild Ride)?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 42, 56, 86, 98, 102 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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