Lips Of An Angel · Hinder

65 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
LIPS OF AN ANGEL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 20, 21, 32, 36 and 13 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 9 sections: 33 keep time, 19 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGANBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lips Of An Angel?

129 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 Lips Of An Angel hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Lips Of An Angel?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 20, 21, 32, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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