Angie · The Rolling Stones

68 bars, 4:00, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10-11 and 13-15, and 6 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
ANGIE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 3 sections: 61 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-52.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Angie?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Angie hard to play on drums?

38 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Angie?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

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