Wake Up The Mountain · Helloween

175 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 61-67, and 6 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WAKE UP THE MOUNTAIN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 24 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 5-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 21 sections: 103 keep time, 30 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-67.

PART A
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AD
PART AO
PART AR
14 groovesQIAOLT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wake Up The Mountain?

140 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 The Mountain hard to play on drums?

61 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 The Mountain?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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