← SONGS

Say Hello To The Angels · Interpol

EXERCISE 23 OF 55
Groove N -- Part N
59 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART M
PART N
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesVCEDR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say Hello To The Angels on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-36, ride through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and ride through bars 41-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 8 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x--x-x--x---|
Say Hello To The Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 35, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Say Hello To The Angels?

106 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 Say Hello To The Angels hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Say Hello To The Angels?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 35, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED