My Only Angel · Aerosmith, YUNGBLUD

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-16, 33-48 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MY ONLY ANGEL · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 12, 32, 64 and 116.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time, 5 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-115.

COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGKMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Only Angel?

110 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 My Only Angel hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Only Angel?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 12, 32, 64 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →