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Wake Up Bass · Mad Season

EXERCISE 14 OF 56
Groove I -- Outro
80 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 4, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Up Bass on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-13, ride through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19 and ride through bars 20-25, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D, E, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-117 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 49-68 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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