Citadel · Angelmaker

166 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-52, 55-57 and 62-63, and 5 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CITADEL · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 50, 86, 120, 134, 136, 148 and 12 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 16 sections: 95 keep time, 18 are fills, 17 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-85.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART AE
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQXMS1H+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Citadel?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Citadel hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

166 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Citadel?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 50, 86, 120, 134, 136, 148 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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