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Angel Eyes · Guilt Trip

EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Groove G
50 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFORAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel Eyes on drums

102 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 18-19, and 18 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-87 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel Eyes?

200 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 Angel Eyes hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Angel Eyes?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED