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Waiting Room · Fugazi

Waiting Room · Fugazi
EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFHDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting Room on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-63 and snare through bars 64-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-22, and 6 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Waiting Room -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 11, 23, 26, 33, 34 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-24 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Waiting Room?

94 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 Room hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Waiting Room?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 11, 23, 26, 33, 34 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED