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The Calm That Keeps You Awake · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 7 OF 38
Fill at bar 27 and 31 (a small one)
38 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Calm That Keeps You Awake on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, snare through bars 32-51 and toms through bars 52-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    74
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
The Calm That Keeps You Awake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- V -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-74 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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