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The Wait · Metallica

EXERCISE 25 OF 86
4-bar fill at bar 89
130 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AF
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGAFOAIT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wait on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, toms through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, toms through bars 45-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Wait -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- G, AF -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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