Angel In My Heart · Brinty Fox

136 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 25-30 and 34-39, and 8 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
ANGEL IN MY HEART · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 33, 42, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 15 are fills, 18 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-136.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCPNS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angel In My Heart?

124 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 In My Heart hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 In My Heart?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 33, 42, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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