The Way They Wait In Every Corner · Akkirus Risen

207 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-46, 49-54 and 59-64, and 8 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
THE WAY THEY WAIT IN EVERY CORNER · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 56, 58, 66, 84, 108 and 16 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 143-144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 18 sections: 141 keep time, 22 are fills, 11 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-39.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
9 groovesHEOJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way They Wait In Every Corner?

195 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 Way They Wait In Every Corner hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Way They Wait In Every Corner?

3 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 56, 58, 66, 84, 108 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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