Warmness On The Soul · Avenged Sevenfold

71 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 23-25 and 28-33, and 6 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WARMNESS ON THE SOUL · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 38, 40, 43 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 6 sections: 47 keep time, 14 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-17.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Warmness On The Soul?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Warmness On The Soul hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Warmness On The Soul?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 38, 40, 43 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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