Watch the Angel, Not the Wire · Black Box Recorder

69 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20 and 37-52 -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WATCH THE ANGEL, NOT THE WIRE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 4 sections: 64 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watch the Angel, Not the Wire?

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 Watch the Angel, Not the Wire hard to play on drums?

30 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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