A Cruel Angels Thesis · Neon Genesis Evangelion

45 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-32, 34-40 and 42-43 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
A CRUEL ANGELS THESIS · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 45.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 44-45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 36 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-43.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Cruel Angels Thesis?

80 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 A Cruel Angels Thesis hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Cruel Angels Thesis?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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