Waiting Is the Hardest Part · Lantern Ash

100 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 4:01 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-50, 70-75 and 85-91, and 2 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 67, 68, 92 and 2 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 8 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-29.

PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART H
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDHBCS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting Is the Hardest Part?

74 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Waiting Is the Hardest Part hard to play on drums?

33 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Is the Hardest Part?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 67, 68, 92 and 2 more.

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