Still Waiting At The Door · REN BHALS

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 22, and 4 more places -- 81% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
STILL WAITING AT THE DOOR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 2 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-47.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Waiting At The Door?

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 Still Waiting At The Door hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 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 Still Waiting At The Door?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

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