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El Ángel Caído · Avalanch

EXERCISE 35 OF 73
Fill at bar 82, 152 and 216 (a small one)
203 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART Q
PART Q
PART Q
4 groovesGQHKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Ángel Caído on drums

240 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-54, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 17 and 19-31, and 13 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
El Ángel Caído -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 18, 35 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-72 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El Ángel Caído?

150 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 El Ángel Caído hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 El Ángel Caído?

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 18, 35 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED