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When The Angels Sing · Social Distortion

EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 14-16)
75 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Angels Sing on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
32/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 7 and 12, and 22 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |----x---x---x---|
When The Angels Sing -- 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 24, 32, 48, 56, 86, 98 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-87 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When The Angels Sing?

123 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 When The Angels Sing hard to play on drums?

32 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When The Angels Sing?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 56, 86, 98 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED