Silent Angel · Apace

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 11 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SILENT ANGEL · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 33, 41, 85, 97, 101 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 9 sections: 95 keep time, 9 are fills, 12 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-63.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIGDS1P+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Angel?

120 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 Silent Angel hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Silent Angel?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 33, 41, 85, 97, 101 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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