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Wake Up · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 7 OF 58
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-9)
53 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART E
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART U
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
9 groovesXACIAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Up on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-37, ride through bars 38-40 and snare through bars 41-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-67, 69-75 and 77-83 -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61                               62
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------X---------------|--------X-----------------X-----|
BD |x-x---x-----x-----------x-x---x-|----x-----------x-x---x-----x-x-|
Wake Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 29, 30, 32 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- X, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-45 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wake Up?

130 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?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 29, 30, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED