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Angel · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 26 OF 31
Fill at bar 57 (a small one)
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COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
BREAK 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGS3DCS5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-41 and kick and crashes through bars 42-43, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-34 -- 21.1% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |g-------g-------g-------g-------|
Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 41, 43, 47, 51, 55 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-38 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel?

78 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Angel 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 41, 43, 47, 51, 55 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED