Angel of Death (Standard Tuning) · Slayer

243 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 42-49, and 11 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
ANGEL OF DEATH (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 33, 41 and 32 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 17 sections: 175 keep time, 39 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-174.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
PART S
PART S
PART AA
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGFSAAAI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angel of Death (Standard Tuning)?

210 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 (Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

85 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 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 (Standard Tuning)?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 33, 41 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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