Wasted Time - HQ · Skid Row

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17 and 21, and 11 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
WASTED TIME - HQ · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-97.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBHVDE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasted Time - HQ?

82 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 Time - HQ hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Time - HQ?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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