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Waiting Is the Hardest Part · Lantern Ash

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting Is the Hardest Part on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, snare through bars 49-51, silence through bars 52-59, hi-hat through bars 60-66 and toms through bars 67-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Waiting Is the Hardest Part -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H, B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-43 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-93 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED