Wake Up · Smash Into Pieces

112 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-43, 53-67 and 69-83, and 1 more place -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
WAKE UP · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 91 and 92.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 3 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-43.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
8 groovesFDAS1S11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake Up?

125 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Wake Up?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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