The Black Angels · Manipulation

183 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-41, 43 and 45-46, and 41 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE BLACK ANGELS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 7 sections: 162 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-182.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Black Angels?

130 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 Black Angels hard to play on drums?

41 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Black Angels?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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