Waste A Moment · Kings Of Leon

115 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-31, and 8 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WASTE A MOMENT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 77, 95 and 107.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 103 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-63.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waste A Moment?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Waste A Moment hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Waste A Moment?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 77, 95 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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