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Angel Wings · PRESIDENT

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove N -- Chorus
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PART C
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
PART V
PART X
BREAK
PART M
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART AI
PART AK
14 groovesNMAKCE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angel Wings on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-56, silence through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 33-35 and 37-38, and 3 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
Angel Wings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angel Wings?

130 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 Wings hard to play on drums?

61 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?

115 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Wings?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 24, 28, 30 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED