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Answers · Angel Gunpowder
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesACS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Answers on drums

153 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 2:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-80, toms through bars 81-88, hi-hat through bars 89-120 and toms through bars 121-128, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-40, 49-80 and 89-120, and 1 more place -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a
HH |x-x-xxx-|
SD |--x---x-|
BD |x---xx--|
Answers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 133-153 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Answers?

150 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Answers hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 Answers?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED