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Awake · Tycho

Awake · Tycho
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBHAS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awake on drums

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

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, silence through bars 15-24, hi-hat through bars 25-144, silence through bars 145-152 and hi-hat through bars 153-202.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------|
Awake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 36-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-165 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 163-183 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 174-183 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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