The Awakening of Mher · Tigran Hamasyan

190 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 100 -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
THE AWAKENING OF MHER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 9, 17, 28, 29, 35, 36 and 62 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 20 sections: 64 keep time, 68 are fills, 8 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART D
PART L
BREAK
PART S9
PART AM
PART BA
CHORUS
OUTRO
19 groovesBPBAS9S6L+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Awakening of Mher?

116 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 of Mher hard to play on drums?

63 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Awakening of Mher?

12 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 9, 17, 28, 29, 35, 36 and 62 more.

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