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Angels Like You · Miley Cyrus

EXERCISE 9 OF 18
Groove G -- Outro
35 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART A
BREAK
PART B
PART A
PART B
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBAS3S8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angels Like You on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

25 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
72
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
25/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-25, silence through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-39, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 30, and 7 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Angels Like You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 55, 56, 71 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angels Like You?

120 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 Like You hard to play on drums?

25 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Like You?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 55, 56, 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED