Machinations of the Star Angels · Malevolent

170 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 280 BPM, 2:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 10 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 280 BPM
MACHINATIONS OF THE STAR ANGELS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 15, 16, 17, 37, 41 and 39 more.

LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 18 sections: 143 keep time, 45 are fills, 11 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-36.

CHORUS
PART X
PART C
PART AB
PART AG
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesIS18CXAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Machinations of the Star Angels?

280 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Machinations of the Star Angels hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Machinations of the Star Angels?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 15, 16, 17, 37, 41 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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