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Angel Mine · Cowboy Junkies

Angel Mine · Cowboy Junkies
EXERCISE 7 OF 13
Groove E -- Part E
98 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel Mine on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, ride through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, ride through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-36, 41-60 and 65-72, and 2 more places -- 80.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Angel Mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 35-74 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 75-96 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel Mine?

114 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 Mine hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED