Waltz Of Time · Isra

119 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-82, 84-86 and 88-90, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WALTZ OF TIME · BARS 80-81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 54-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 13 are fills and 69 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-53.

PART S1
PART F
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AC
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesS9JQACAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waltz Of Time?

120 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 Of Time hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Waltz Of Time?

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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