True Love Waits (90s band version) · Radiohead

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 14 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
TRUE LOVE WAITS (90S BAND VERSION) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 56, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 3 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 64-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 52 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-39.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is True Love Waits (90s band version)?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is True Love Waits (90s band version) hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in True Love Waits (90s band version)?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 56, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 3 more.

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