Unholy Confessions Best Version · Avenged Sevenfold

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-34, 37-39 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
UNHOLY CONFESSIONS BEST VERSION · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 28, 36 and 14 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 17 sections: 71 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-100.

PART D
CHORUS
PART T
PART D
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
13 groovesNDTKL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unholy Confessions Best Version?

95 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 Unholy Confessions Best Version hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Unholy Confessions Best Version?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 28, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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