Evil Angel · Breaking Benjamin

104 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 3:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 20 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
EVIL ANGEL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 18, 22 and 25 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 13 sections: 57 keep time, 31 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART U
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
5 groovesCGULS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Evil Angel?

86 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Evil Angel hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 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 Evil Angel?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 18, 22 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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