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Wake Up The Mountain · Helloween

EXERCISE 13 OF 82
Join Part A to Part I (bars 10-12)
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PART A
PART I
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Up The Mountain on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-44 and ride through bars 45-52, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-45 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-53 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 12-119 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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