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Angry Again · Megadeth

EXERCISE 11 OF 38
2-bar fill at bar 36 and 1 more
92 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGLPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angry Again on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-26, toms through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and toms through bars 46-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 12-16 and 20-24, and 4 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 36, 37 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, D (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-102 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Angry Again?

128 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 Angry Again hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Angry Again?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 27, 28, 36, 37 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED