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Awake · Recoil
EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 128 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awake on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-----x-|
SD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x-----x-x-|
Awake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-41 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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