Only One Who Waits · Insomnium

210 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 50-64 and 98-112, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ONLY ONE WHO WAITS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 21 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 16 sections: 159 keep time, 27 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-64.

CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART Z
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFINAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only One Who Waits?

160 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 Only One Who Waits hard to play on drums?

57 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Only One Who Waits?

18 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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