Waltz #2 · Elliott Smith

103 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 4:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 15-16 and 18-30, and 3 more places -- 90.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
WALTZ #2 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 14.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS6S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waltz #2?

132 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Waltz #2 hard to play on drums?

40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Waltz #2?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 14.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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