Wake · Hillsong Young And Free

144 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 49-56 and 89-96, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
WAKE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 72 and 120.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 18 sections: 116 keep time, 3 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAFEHC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake?

131 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 Wake hard to play on drums?

40 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Wake?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 72 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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