← SONGS

Waffle · Sevendust

EXERCISE 15 OF 45
Fill at bar 28, 52 and 60
46 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART U
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBJEUN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waffle on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-60, ride through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 25-27 and 49-51, and 1 more place -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o--o----|
SD |----x-------x--g|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-xx--xx-----|x--x-xx--xx--xx-|
Waffle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 28, 30, 32, 34, 47 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 41-59 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Waffle?

96 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 Waffle hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Waffle?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 28, 30, 32, 34, 47 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED