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Silent Angel · Apace

EXERCISE 7 OF 47
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIGDS1P+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Angel on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-89, ride through bars 90-97 and snare through bars 98-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 11 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Silent Angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 33, 41, 85, 97, 101 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Silent Angel?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Silent Angel hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Silent Angel?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 33, 41, 85, 97, 101 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED