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Angels Fall · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 25 OF 32
2-bar fill at bar 60
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0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART A
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIAGDS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angels Fall on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-38, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x--x--xx--x--|
Angels Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 34, 36, 38 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, G -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-36 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angels Fall?

98 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 Fall hard to play on drums?

54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Angels Fall?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 34, 36, 38 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED