No Pain For The Dead · Angra

86 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-10, 12-13 and 68-72, and 3 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NO PAIN FOR THE DEAD · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 11, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 11 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-81.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS5QKH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Pain For The Dead?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 No Pain For The Dead hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 No Pain For The Dead?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 11, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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