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Waiting For A Girl Like You · Foreigner

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting For A Girl Like You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-52, ride through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-93 and ride through bars 94-120.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Waiting For A Girl Like You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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