Awake · Godsmack

138 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AWAKE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 45 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 51 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-105.

PART A
PART F
PART K
PART A
PART F
PART K
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesYAFKDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Awake?

110 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 Awake hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Awake?

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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