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Wake Up · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 5 OF 46
Groove K -- Chorus
31 / 126 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesKHTS1E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wake Up on drums

126 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, snare through bars 26-34, ride through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-62 and snare through bars 63-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 42, and 12 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Wake Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 25, 33, 34, 62, 70 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- L, H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wake Up?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wake Up hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 25, 33, 34, 62, 70 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED