Burning Angel · Arch Enemy

164 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 65-71, and 7 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BURNING ANGEL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56 and 11 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 17 sections: 121 keep time, 17 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDAIABG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Angel?

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

Is Burning Angel hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 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 Burning Angel?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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