The Waiting Game · harry styles

104 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-39, 41 and 43, and 27 more places -- 65.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE WAITING GAME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 4 sections: 92 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Waiting Game?

165 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 Waiting Game hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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