Awake · Tycho

202 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43-56 and 65-105, and 9 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
AWAKE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 15 sections: 164 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-144.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBHAS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Awake?

176 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?

43 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Awake?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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