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Waiting Room · Phoebe Bridgers

EXERCISE 15 OF 20
Fill at bar 62, 78 and 86 (a small one)
71 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART C
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesICFS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waiting Room on drums

86 bars, 5:23, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-31, silence through bars 32-38, ride through bars 39-54 and snare through bars 55-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-61, 65-69 and 73-74, and 3 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx----x|
Waiting Room -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 54, 62, 70, 78 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- I, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Waiting Room?

64 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Room hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Room?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 54, 62, 70, 78 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED