Angels · Avenged Sevenfold

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 8 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
ANGELS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 47, 54 and 18 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 54-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-77.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesFWKAQS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angels?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Angels hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Angels?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 47, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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