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The Way They Wait In Every Corner · Akkirus Risen

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
9 groovesHEOJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way They Wait In Every Corner on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, snare through bars 41-54, toms through bars 55-58 and snare through bars 59-64, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
The Way They Wait In Every Corner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-121 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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