The Wait · Metallica

195 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 29-31, and 16 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE WAIT · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 47 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 16 sections: 113 keep time, 53 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-173.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGAFOAIT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wait?

162 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 The Wait hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Wait?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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