A Dark Omen · Angelmaker

102 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 27, and 5 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
A DARK OMEN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 36, 51, 66 and 16 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART T
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHDAOPM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Dark Omen?

110 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 A Dark Omen hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 A Dark Omen?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 36, 51, 66 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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