The Seven Angels · Avantasia

295 bars, 21:19, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
295
LENGTH
21:19
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-65, 67-68 and 70-73, and 5 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 55 BPM
THE SEVEN ANGELS · BAR 63
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 13, 22, 26 and 34 more.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

295 bars across 31 sections: 172 keep time, 40 are fills, 15 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 264-294.

PART R
PART AB
PART R
PART AB
PART AP
PART S25
OUTRO 2
22 groovesBIRABS25AP+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Seven Angels?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Seven Angels hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

295 bars, about 21:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 30 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 The Seven Angels?

25 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 13, 22, 26 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 295 BARS ANALYSED
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