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Wake Up · Mad Season

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Up on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7 and ride through bars 8-64.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
HF |----x-------x---|
Wake Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-60 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED