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Wasted angel · boundaries

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
PART S13
13 groovesAS13IMS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wasted angel on drums

96 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-65, toms through bars 66-72, silence through bars 73-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 25-31 and 43-50 -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Wasted angel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-28 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-46 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wasted angel?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wasted angel hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wasted angel?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED