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Fallen Angel · King Crimson

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove Q -- Chorus
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0 / 63 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART K
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AO
OUTRO
13 groovesQAFAOKE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen Angel on drums

126 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 5:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29 and silence through bars 30-33, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 45-46 and 48-50, and 9 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------x-----------------|
RD |------x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----|
Fallen Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 33, 41, 42, 43, 47 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 11-21 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fallen Angel?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fallen Angel hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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 Fallen Angel?

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 33, 41, 42, 43, 47 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED