Wake Up · Rage Against The Machine

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 5 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WAKE UP · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 29, 53 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 106-107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART S
PART B
PART W
PART Y
10 groovesHGBYW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake Up?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Up?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 29, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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