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True Love Waits (90s band version) · Radiohead

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play True Love Waits (90s band version) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-64 and snare through bars 65-72.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
True Love Waits (90s band version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-62 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED