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Lips Of An Angel · Hinder

EXERCISE 29 OF 47
Run N1 · Verse (bars 26-32)
53 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGANBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lips Of An Angel on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|
HH |--o---o-o-o---o-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Lips Of An Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 20, 21, 32, 36 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-15 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-33 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-45 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lips Of An Angel?

129 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 Lips Of An Angel hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Lips Of An Angel?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 20, 21, 32, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED