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Angel · NewDad
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 26 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBGIAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-31, silence through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-55, silence through bars 56-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-62, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11 and 13-21, and 7 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-55 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-78 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-95 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel?

118 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?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED