The Calm That Keeps You Awake · Knocked Loose

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 5 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE CALM THAT KEEPS YOU AWAKE · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 18 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 6-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 6 sections: 34 keep time, 24 are fills, 28 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-26.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRIVAAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Calm That Keeps You Awake?

92 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 Calm That Keeps You Awake hard to play on drums?

64 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Calm That Keeps You Awake?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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