Fly To The Angels · Slaughter

123 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 13 and 45-47, and 13 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FLY TO THE ANGELS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 64, 72, 79, 80, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 10 are fills, 27 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-78.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS4BS9S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly To The Angels?

120 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 Fly To The Angels hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fly To The Angels?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 64, 72, 79, 80, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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