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Only One Who Waits · Insomnium

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only One Who Waits on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-130, kick and crashes through bars 131-145, toms through bars 146-161 and snare through bars 162-210.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Only One Who Waits -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-18 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-66 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-82 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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