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The Waiting Game · harry styles

EXERCISE 5 OF 8
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 9-64)
89 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Waiting Game on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-64, silence through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-104.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED