Waiting For Tonight · Jennifer Lopez

125 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-31, 33-59 and 61-85, and 3 more places -- 81.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WAITING FOR TONIGHT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 88-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 7 sections: 105 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-85.

VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE 3
5 groovesDS5FKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting For Tonight?

122 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Waiting For Tonight?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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