Unholy Confessions (Drop A#) · Avenged Sevenfold

218 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-56, 59-60 and 63-64, and 16 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
UNHOLY CONFESSIONS (DROP A#) · BARS 55-56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 18 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 35-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

222 bars across 19 sections: 122 keep time, 25 are fills, 55 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-21.

PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART Z
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S
14 groovesNSDZL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unholy Confessions (Drop A#)?

195 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 (Drop A#) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 (Drop A#)?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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