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Wait · Earshot

Wait · Earshot
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wait on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-66 and toms through bars 67-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-90 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED