Waiting In Vain · Bob Marley

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 13-31 and 38-82 -- 87.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
WAITING IN VAIN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 4 sections: 77 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-82.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting In Vain?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In Vain hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In Vain?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

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