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Angel · Elefante

EXERCISE 3 OF 52
Groove G -- Part G
85 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGYVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-162.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6 and 8, and 23 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
HF |----x-------x---|
Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel?

137 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 Angel hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Angel?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED