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another angel down · Avantasia

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBJHDM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play another angel down on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, ride through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 29-35, and 12 more places -- 51.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-77 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-27 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-37 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is another angel down?

107 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 another angel down hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 another angel down?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 20, 25 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED