Awake · Brou

196 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-79, 105-107 and 109-111, and 6 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
AWAKE · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 56, 68, 72 and 18 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 13 sections: 149 keep time, 24 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKECIW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Awake?

160 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 Awake hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Awake?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 56, 68, 72 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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