Still Waiting · Sum 41

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

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 35-37, and 7 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 192 BPM
STILL WAITING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 34, 42, 46 and 26 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 32 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIYGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 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 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Still Waiting?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 34, 42, 46 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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