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Angels Don't Kill · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove B -- Part B
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PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART X
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesDIJXS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angels Don't Kill on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-50 and ride through bars 51-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 49 and 68, and 5 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Angels Don't Kill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B, J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-58 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-41 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-71 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part X -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angels Don't Kill?

92 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 Angels Don't Kill hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Don't Kill?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED