The Angel And The Sodomizer · Carpathian Forest

79 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-49 and 52-59 -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE ANGEL AND THE SODOMIZER · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 41, 50, 51, 60, 61 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART A
PART H
PART I
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJAHIF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Angel And The Sodomizer?

150 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 The Angel And The Sodomizer hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 The Angel And The Sodomizer?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 41, 50, 51, 60, 61 and 1 more.

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