Unholy Confessions (Waking the Fallen) · Avenged Sevenfold

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
81/100
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 -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
UNHOLY CONFESSIONS (WAKING THE FALLEN) · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 18 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 17 sections: 68 keep time, 24 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-43.

PART D
CHORUS
PART V
PART D
PART AC
PART AH
CHORUS 2
12 groovesNDAHACK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unholy Confessions (Waking the Fallen)?

98 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 (Waking the Fallen) hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 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 (Waking the Fallen)?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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