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Away With Words · 7 Angels 7 Plagues

EXERCISE 28 OF 70
Fill at bar 24 and 28 (a small one)
44 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AD
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesS11KABAGAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Away With Words on drums

130 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-22, snare through bars 23-29, toms through bars 30-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-49, 51-54 and 76, and 1 more place -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--------|
Away With Words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-13 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-27 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Away With Words?

190 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 Away With Words hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Away With Words?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED