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Angeles · Kidd Voodoo

Angeles · Kidd Voodoo
EXERCISE 14 OF 23
Run S61 · Break 2 (bars 38-39)
38 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
PART A
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCES5AB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angeles on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, silence through bars 21-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-29, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17-18 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----|
Angeles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 53, 59, 63 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-55 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angeles?

120 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 Angeles hard to play on drums?

33 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Angeles?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 53, 59, 63 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED