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My Only Angel · Aerosmith, YUNGBLUD

My Only Angel · Aerosmith, YUNGBLUD
EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
62 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGKMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Only Angel on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-88, ride through bars 89-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-16, 33-48 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|xxxx-xxxxxxx----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xxxx|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
My Only Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 12, 32, 64 and 116.

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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-82 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-92 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Only Angel?

110 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 My Only Angel hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Only Angel?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 12, 32, 64 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED