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Fallen Angel · Poison

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFHLCA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen Angel on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-32, 41-48 and 51-66, and 2 more places -- 60.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-x-----x-------|
Fallen Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 39, 40, 49 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-36 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 83-115 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fallen Angel?

148 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 Fallen Angel hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 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?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 39, 40, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED