Where Dead Angels Lie · Dissection

216 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 8:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WHERE DEAD ANGELS LIE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 48 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

30 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 18 sections: 130 keep time, 54 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-151.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
10 groovesJBEAVAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Dead Angels Lie?

80 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Where Dead Angels Lie hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Where Dead Angels Lie?

34 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 12, 20, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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