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Awake · Lost Society

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART S6
CHORUS
PART S12
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO 2
17 groovesCJKS6H+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awake on drums

220 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-15, silence through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 35-41, and 14 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 58, 66, 86 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 9-51 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-137 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 155-169 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 166-200 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Awake?

171 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?

39 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 58, 66, 86 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED