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Wait For It · Cast of Hamilton

Wait For It · Cast of Hamilton
EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART S7
PART I
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABOS7E+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wait For It on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-51 and silence through bars 52-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 10-11 and 13-19, and 4 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Wait For It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Break 4 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wait For It?

94 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 For It hard to play on drums?

37 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 For It?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED