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Angus McFife · Gloryhammer

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Groove L
141 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Angus McFife on drums

152 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-80, hi-hat through bars 81-96 and snare through bars 97-120, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 12 more places -- 69.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Angus McFife -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Angus McFife?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Angus McFife hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Angus McFife?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED