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Just Awake · Fear, And Loathing In Las Vegas

EXERCISE 14 OF 81
Groove X
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PART A
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AS
PART A
PART AX
PART BJ
PART Z
PART BT
OUTRO
11 groovesMAFZAAX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Awake on drums

174 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28 and snare through bars 29-32, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 37-39 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----X-----------|--------------x-|
HH |--------o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--xx----x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Just Awake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 25 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-24 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 37-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-55 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Just Awake?

191 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 Just Awake hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Just Awake?

15 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 25 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED