Archangel · Samurai

83 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 17-18 and 20-22, and 3 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
ARCHANGEL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 and 26 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 32 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-22.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBRHWNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Archangel?

111 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 Archangel hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Archangel?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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