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Angels · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 6 OF 60
Groove D
35 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART W
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesFWKAQS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angels on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-90, ride through bars 91-107 and snare through bars 108-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 8 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x---------x-|
Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 47, 54 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- F, W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angels?

77 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 Angels hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Angels?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 27, 47, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED