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Waiting For The Thunder · Blackberry Smoke

Waiting For The Thunder · Blackberry Smoke
EXERCISE 36 OF 39
Groove O -- Outro 2
100 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBAIEK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting For The Thunder on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-66, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25-31 and 33-34, and 8 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 64, 96 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-65 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-78 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-93 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-110 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 112-127 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Waiting For The Thunder?

144 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 Thunder hard to play on drums?

40 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Thunder?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 64, 96 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED