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The Awakening · Arclite

EXERCISE 9 OF 69
Join Part A to Part B (bars 7-9)
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0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART B
PART A
PART B
PART B
PART N
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
15 groovesJNBDU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Awakening on drums

282 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 8:16 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
8:16
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-63, silence through bars 64-66, snare through bars 67-175, silence through bars 176-177, kick and crashes through bars 178-191 and snare through bars 192-282.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 108 and 117, and 14 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    202
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
The Awakening -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- J, D, N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-73 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Awakening?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Awakening hard to play on drums?

39 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 8:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Awakening?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED