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Awaken · Dethklok

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART I
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCAIJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awaken on drums

164 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and toms through bars 49-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 28 and 32, and 9 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |X---X---X---X---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Awaken -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 68, 96, 116 and 123.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-151 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-44 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-97 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Awaken?

190 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 Awaken hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Awaken?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 68, 96, 116 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED