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The Angel And The Sodomizer · Carpathian Forest

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART H
PART I
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJAHIF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Angel And The Sodomizer on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and ride through bars 30-37, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-49 and 52-59 -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
The Angel And The Sodomizer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 41, 50, 51, 60, 61 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Angel And The Sodomizer?

150 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 The Angel And The Sodomizer hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 The Angel And The Sodomizer?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 41, 50, 51, 60, 61 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED