Wasted On The Way · Crosby Stills & Nash

104 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-20, 22-24 and 39-48, and 3 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 154 BPM
WASTED ON THE WAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 38 and 104.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-20.

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

Questions

What BPM is Wasted On The Way?

154 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 Wasted On The Way hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wasted On The Way?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 38 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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