She Talks To Angels (RJG) · black crows

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 4 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SHE TALKS TO ANGELS (RJG) · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 27, 35, 51 and 69.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 4 sections: 56 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Talks To Angels (RJG)?

80 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 She Talks To Angels (RJG) hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 She Talks To Angels (RJG)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 27, 35, 51 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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