ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angelgrinder on drums

173 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 170 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 173
LENGTH: 5:03
DIFFICULTY: 83/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and ride through bars 46-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20, 30-37 and 119-133 -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                                                7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
FT |--------------------------------x---------------|------------------------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Angelgrinder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 69.

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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 20-41 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 46-71 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 69-105 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Angelgrinder?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Angelgrinder hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Angelgrinder?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED