Victim · Avenged Sevenfold

121 bars, 8:18, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
8:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 52-54, and 4 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
VICTIM · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 38, 43, 51, 59, 63 and 5 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 13 sections: 70 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-30.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK 2
12 groovesHPESS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Victim?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Victim hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

121 bars, about 8:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Victim?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 38, 43, 51, 59, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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