I've Been Waiting For You · ABBA

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-38, 40-42 and 44-46, and 3 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 27, 29, 39, 43, 49 and 1 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 3 sections: 53 keep time, 7 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-69.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I've Been Waiting For You?

80 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 I've Been Waiting For You hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 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 I've Been Waiting For You?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 27, 29, 39, 43, 49 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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