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Machinations of the Star Angels · Malevolent

EXERCISE 12 OF 84
3-bar fill at bar 15
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0 / 84 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART X
PART C
PART AB
PART AG
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesIS18CXAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Machinations of the Star Angels on drums

170 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 280 BPM, 2:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-57, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 10 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Machinations of the Star Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 15, 16, 17, 37, 41 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- I, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-85 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Machinations of the Star Angels?

280 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Machinations of the Star Angels hard to play on drums?

60 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 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 Machinations of the Star Angels?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 15, 16, 17, 37, 41 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED