Unholy Confessions (Drop C) · Avenged Sevenfold

224 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-58, 61-62 and 65-66, and 16 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
UNHOLY CONFESSIONS (DROP C) · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 21 sections: 122 keep time, 25 are fills, 56 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART E
CHORUS
PART T
PART AA
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART T
16 groovesOTEAAM+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unholy Confessions (Drop C)?

196 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 C) hard to play on drums?

71 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?

224 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 C)?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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