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Burning Angel · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Fill at bar 8 (a small one)
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0 / 62 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning Angel on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-63 and snare through bars 64-72, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Burning Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-65 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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