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Waste A Moment · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
Run C3 · Outro (bars 81-89)
111 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waste A Moment on drums

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

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-115.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Waste A Moment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-33 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-80 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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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