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The Awakening of Mher · Tigran Hamasyan

EXERCISE 14 OF 70
Groove L -- Part L
28 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L
PART D
PART J
PART L
BREAK
PART S9
PART L
PART AM
PART BA
CHORUS
OUTRO
19 groovesBPBAS9S6L+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Awakening of Mher on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-36, ride through bars 37-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-41 and silence through bars 42-58, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e
HH |x-x-x-xxxx|
SD |-----x----|
BD |xx-xx-----|
The Awakening of Mher -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-69 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part S9 and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-97 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED