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Awesome song · Me

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove A -- Intro
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INTRO
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART S6
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAS6HFS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Awesome song on drums

125 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-61, silence through bars 62-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-84 and toms through bars 85-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 45-60, and 1 more place -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 44, 67, 68 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-84 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-96 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Awesome song?

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 Awesome song hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Awesome song?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 44, 67, 68 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED