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The Angle · Core

The Angle · Core
EXERCISE 17 OF 30
Fill at bar 94 and 150
126 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHDMAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Angle on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-57, silence through bars 58-61, hi-hat through bars 62-94, ride through bars 95-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-150, and 1 more change 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 13 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----------x-----|
BD |x---x-x---------|
The Angle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 86, 94, 102, 134, 146 and 150.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-46 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-87 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Angle?

152 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 Angle hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Angle?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 86, 94, 102, 134, 146 and 150.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED