Wait · Earshot

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 12 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
WAIT · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 90.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-64.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesFEBIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait?

102 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 hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wait?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 90.

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