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Waiting For Tonight · Jennifer Lopez

Waiting For Tonight · Jennifer Lopez
EXERCISE 9 OF 19
5-bar fill at bar 88
104 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
VERSE 3
5 groovesDS5FKAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting For Tonight on drums

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

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-85, kick and crashes through bars 86-88, hi-hat through bars 89-101, silence through bars 102-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-125.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxo-xxo-xxo-xxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Waiting For Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-86 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 86-101 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 101-116 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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