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Fly To The Angels · Slaughter

Fly To The Angels · Slaughter
EXERCISE 14 OF 29
Groove J
62 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS4BS9S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly To The Angels on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, silence through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 13 and 45-47, and 13 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Fly To The Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 64, 72, 79, 80, 92 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fly To The Angels?

120 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 Fly To The Angels hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fly To The Angels?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 64, 72, 79, 80, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED