Angel From Montgomery · Bonnie Raitt

119 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-20 and 31-35, and 5 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
ANGEL FROM MONTGOMERY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 91, 98, 99, 106 and 107.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 98-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 106-107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 16 sections: 77 keep time, 5 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEAFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angel From Montgomery?

126 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 From Montgomery hard to play on drums?

32 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Angel From Montgomery?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 91, 98, 99, 106 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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