Wait by the River - Offical · Lord Huron

84 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 86.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
WAIT BY THE RIVER - OFFICAL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 60.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 3 sections: 80 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-59.

CHORUS
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait by the River - Offical?

82 BPM, in 3/4, 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 by the River - Offical hard to play on drums?

30 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Wait by the River - Offical?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 60.

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