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Andy James - Angel Of Darkness on EMGtv · AI

EXERCISE 13 OF 60
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
123 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART AE
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesBOKHAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Andy James - Angel Of Darkness on EMGtv on drums

176 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-41, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Andy James - Angel Of Darkness on EMGtv -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 37, 41 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 18-34 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-50 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-80 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 4 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Andy James - Angel Of Darkness on EMGtv?

155 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 Andy James - Angel Of Darkness on EMGtv hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Andy James - Angel Of Darkness on EMGtv?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 37, 41 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED