Unholy Confessions by Brooks Wackerman (at drumeo) · Avenged Sevenfold

281 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 18, and 5 more places -- 5.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
UNHOLY CONFESSIONS BY BROOKS WACKERMAN (AT DRUMEO) · BARS 10-11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 21, 27, 37, 49, 61, 65 and 31 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 32 sections: 157 keep time, 37 are fills, 37 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-20.

CHORUS
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART BQ
PART CQ
PART DH
26 groovesGAEDHBBAI+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unholy Confessions by Brooks Wackerman (at drumeo)?

190 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 Unholy Confessions by Brooks Wackerman (at drumeo) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 113 exercises over 41 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 by Brooks Wackerman (at drumeo)?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 21, 27, 37, 49, 61, 65 and 31 more.

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