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Still Waiting · Electric Callboy

EXERCISE 34 OF 53
Join Chorus 3 to Part P (bars 74-76)
105 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART P
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART C
OUTRO
11 groovesDFPCB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Waiting on drums

126 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-53, snare through bars 54-58, hi-hat through bars 59-63 and snare through bars 64-91, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 35-42 and 64-71, and 1 more place -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Still Waiting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-93 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-59 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-86 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-88 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Waiting?

192 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 Still Waiting hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 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 Still Waiting?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED