The Angle · Core

158 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 13 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
THE ANGLE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 86, 94, 102, 134, 146 and 150.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 10 sections: 96 keep time, 9 are fills, 35 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Angle?

152 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 Angle hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Angle?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 86, 94, 102, 134, 146 and 150.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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