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The Angel In The Marble · Holding Absence

EXERCISE 18 OF 61
Groove I
87 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART G
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART G
PART H
BREAK
PART Y
OUTRO 2
11 groovesXS9HDG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Angel In The Marble on drums

172 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 5:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, snare through bars 31-47, silence through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-66, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-122, 131 and 134-135, and 8 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    119
    1.......2.......3.......
SD |x-x-x-x-x---x-x-------xx|
BD |x---------x-------------|
The Angel In The Marble -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 22, 42, 46, 50, 61 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- W, X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 45-57 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Angel In The Marble?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Angel In The Marble hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 The Angel In The Marble?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 22, 42, 46, 50, 61 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED