Waiting On The World To Change · John Mayer

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 23-36 and 39-40, and 3 more places -- 73.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 89 BPM
WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 71.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 3 sections: 68 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting On The World To Change?

89 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 On The World To Change hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 On The World To Change?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 71.

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