(Solo) Still, Waiting for a Ring · Pear Jelly

141 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-22 -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
(SOLO) STILL, WAITING FOR A RING · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 24, 25, 41, 49, 52, 58 and 28 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 34 are fills, 3 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART A
PART C
PART I
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesUCNIS14+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (Solo) Still, Waiting for a Ring?

170 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 (Solo) Still, Waiting for a Ring hard to play on drums?

62 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 (Solo) Still, Waiting for a Ring?

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 24, 25, 41, 49, 52, 58 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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