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Wake Up · Smash Into Pieces

Wake Up · Smash Into Pieces
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Up on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50, snare through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-86 and kick and crashes through bars 87-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Wake Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-69 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 82-94 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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