Wasted angel · boundaries

96 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 25-31 and 43-50 -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 161 BPM
WASTED ANGEL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 8 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 15 sections: 51 keep time, 14 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
PART S13
13 groovesAS13IMS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasted angel?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wasted angel hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wasted angel?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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