Exiled Archangels · Rotting Christ

184 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 and 152-182 -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
EXILED ARCHANGELS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 42, 43, 48, 53, 58, 63 and 8 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 13 sections: 125 keep time, 14 are fills, 10 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART F
PART S5
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART F
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAFIS5L+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exiled Archangels?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Exiled Archangels hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Exiled Archangels?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 42, 43, 48, 53, 58, 63 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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