Waltz No. 2 · Dmitri Shostakovich

218 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 3:41 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-217 -- 98.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 178 BPM
WALTZ NO. 2 · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 218.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 218
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars: 217 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-217.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waltz No. 2?

178 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Waltz No. 2 hard to play on drums?

39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Waltz No. 2?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 218.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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