Wake Up · Mad Season

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
WAKE UP · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-42.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDAES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake Up?

79 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Up?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

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