Song About An Angel · Sunny Day Real Estate

208 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-23, 26-31 and 34, and 13 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SONG ABOUT AN ANGEL · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 32, 33, 35 and 57 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 14 sections: 108 keep time, 63 are fills, 16 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-87.

PART H
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesRHVNS3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song About An Angel?

120 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 Song About An Angel hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Song About An Angel?

14 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 32, 33, 35 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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