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Waiting For The Night · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 57 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGQLAU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting For The Night on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37 and ride through bars 38-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22, 26 and 28, and 7 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 23, 25, 41 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G, Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-91 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-65 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-74 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Waiting For The Night?

87 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 The Night hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 The Night?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 23, 25, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED