Angel of Death · Slayer

243 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 4:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 58-64 and 66-73, and 3 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
ANGEL OF DEATH · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 16, 33, 41, 43, 45 and 28 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 20 sections: 174 keep time, 35 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-190.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART V
PART V
PART AA
PART J
PART G
12 groovesFJVGAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angel of Death?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Angel of Death hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Angel of Death?

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 16, 33, 41, 43, 45 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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