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Godless · Angelmaker

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove M -- Outro
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CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART O
PART W
PART AA
PART AE
PART AI
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCMWAAAE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Godless on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
77/100

ride through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and snare through bars 41-59, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23 and 83-90 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
Godless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 14, 20, 24, 32, 34 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Break and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Godless?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Godless hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 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 Godless?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 14, 20, 24, 32, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED