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ANGEL SONG (feat. David Draiman) · Nothing More

EXERCISE 11 OF 44
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 18-20)
55 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART I
7 groovesDBIQS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ANGEL SONG (feat. David Draiman) on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-27, silence through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49, snare through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 40, and 5 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
ANGEL SONG (feat. David Draiman) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 19, 23, 33, 41, 45, 49 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-43 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-62 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-74 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is ANGEL SONG (feat. David Draiman)?

100 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 SONG (feat. David Draiman) hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 SONG (feat. David Draiman)?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 19, 23, 33, 41, 45, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED