Angel · Aerosmith

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 7 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
ANGEL · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 26, 51, 59, 67 and 2 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-107.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGRECMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angel?

86 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 Angel hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Angel?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 26, 51, 59, 67 and 2 more.

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