The Awakener · Kataklysm

134 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 51-54 and 59-66, and 2 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE AWAKENER · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 17 sections: 88 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-86.

PART S2
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLCPNS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Awakener?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Awakener hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Awakener?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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