Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife) · Kamelot

195 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 3:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 52-66 and 88-90, and 5 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SACRIMONY (ANGEL OF AFTERLIFE) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 47, 51, 67, 71, 75 and 16 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 14 sections: 134 keep time, 22 are fills, 15 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-45.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAYES2U+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife) hard to play on drums?

63 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sacrimony (Angel Of Afterlife)?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 47, 51, 67, 71, 75 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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