Wake Up Bass · Mad Season

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 17-19 and 26-34, and 3 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WAKE UP BASS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 41, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73 and 19 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 69-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 75-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 14 sections: 87 keep time, 25 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-133.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEDCPI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake Up Bass?

80 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 Up Bass hard to play on drums?

43 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Wake Up Bass?

8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 41, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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