Morning Waits · As I Lay Dying

170 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 133-170 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
MORNING WAITS · BARS 133-134
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 88, 92, 96 and 2 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 131-132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 15 sections: 133 keep time, 8 are fills, 15 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-170.

PART B
PART F
PART H
PART I
PART A
PART I
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQIHAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morning Waits?

175 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 Morning Waits hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Morning Waits?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 88, 92, 96 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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