The Poorest Waltz · My Dying Bride

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-56 and 65, and 14 more places -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE POOREST WALTZ · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 36, 40 and 25 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 84 keep time, 31 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIAAAOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Poorest Waltz?

100 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 The Poorest Waltz hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Poorest Waltz?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 36, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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