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Angel Eyes · Spiritbox

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove L -- Part L
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART G
PART Q
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesCLQGA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel Eyes on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-53 and toms through bars 54-55, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 44-49 and 93-99, and 1 more place -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 28, 29, 30 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-38 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-75 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel Eyes?

152 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 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?

120 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Eyes?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 28, 29, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED