Awake · Recoil

128 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 215 BPM
AWAKE · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 and 44 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 54 keep time, 50 are fills and 12 are stops.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART A
PART X
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICMAZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Awake?

215 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?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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?

14 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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