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Waltz #2 · Elliott Smith

EXERCISE 7 OF 9
Join Chorus 2 to Part S4 (bars 55-57)
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0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S4
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS6S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waltz #2 on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, silence through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-57, silence through bars 58-60, hi-hat through bars 61-71 and silence through bars 72-103.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x---x-------x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Waltz #2 -- 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 14.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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.

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