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Wake The Dead · Comeback Kid

EXERCISE 18 OF 41
Join Chorus 2 to Part U (bars 77-79)
118 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART U
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKQXAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake The Dead on drums

166 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-17 and snare through bars 18-21, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 134-141 and 143-149, and 2 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    134
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Wake The Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 46, 97 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- Q, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-80 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-98 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part X and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 113-137 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wake The Dead?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wake The Dead hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 46, 97 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED