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Angels · Robbie Williams

EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Groove F -- Outro
63 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLAICFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angels on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
44/100

ride through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-51, ride through bars 52-54, hi-hat through bars 55-77 and ride through bars 78-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-49 and 55-57, and 5 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 23, 26, 29, 42, 43 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-30 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-47 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-79 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angels?

76 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 hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 23, 26, 29, 42, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED