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Still Waiting · Sum 41

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-32, snare through bars 33-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Still Waiting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-38 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-24 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-85 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  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?

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