Waiting For A Girl Like You · Foreigner

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-27, 30-35 and 38-40, and 10 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 51, 52, 56 and 3 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 6 sections: 100 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-119.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting For A Girl Like You?

101 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 Waiting For A Girl Like You hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Waiting For A Girl Like You?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 51, 52, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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