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Evil Angel · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 60 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART U
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGULS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Angel on drums

104 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 3:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 20 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x---------x-|
BD |x-----x---x-------x-----|
Evil Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 18, 22 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-28 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Angel?

86 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Evil Angel hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Evil Angel?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 18, 22 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED