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I've Been Waiting For You · ABBA

EXERCISE 12 OF 20
Fill at bar 39 (a small one)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I've Been Waiting For You on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27 and ride through bars 28-69.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
I've Been Waiting For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- I, C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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