Angry Again · Megadeth

121 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 12-16 and 20-24, and 4 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ANGRY AGAIN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 36, 37 and 22 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 45-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-26.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGLPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angry Again?

128 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 Angry Again hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Angry Again?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 36, 37 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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