ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angry Chair on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 108 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 130
LENGTH: 4:49
DIFFICULTY: 62/100

ride through bars 1-64, hi-hat through bars 65-74 and ride through bars 75-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9, 11-16 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
T2 |---------------x|----------------|
FT |--------------x-|----------------|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-----x---x-----|

Angry Chair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 23, 24, 28, 45, 49 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part H and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part H and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Angry Chair?

108 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 Chair hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Angry Chair?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 23, 24, 28, 45, 49 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED