Wait a Minute! · Willow

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17, and 21 more places -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WAIT A MINUTE! · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 69 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait a Minute!?

100 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 Wait a Minute! hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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