The Angel In The Marble · Holding Absence

172 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 5:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-122, 131 and 134-135, and 8 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
THE ANGEL IN THE MARBLE · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 22, 42, 46, 50, 61 and 9 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 14 sections: 100 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-163.

PART D
PART H
PART M
PART G
BREAK
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesXS9HDG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Angel In The Marble?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Angel In The Marble hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 In The Marble?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 22, 42, 46, 50, 61 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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