Bury Me An Angel · Arch Enemy

153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 16 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BURY ME AN ANGEL · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21 and 36 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 21 sections: 83 keep time, 42 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART AF
OUTRO
11 groovesMBIUAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bury Me An Angel?

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

Is Bury Me An Angel hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Bury Me An Angel?

25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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