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Waiting On The World To Change · John Mayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting On The World To Change on drums

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

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100

The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-xxxxx-|
SD |----x---------x-|
BD |x-x---x---xx-x-x|
Waiting On The World To Change -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED