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Wasted Time - HQ · Skid Row

EXERCISE 13 OF 48
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
65 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wasted Time - HQ on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, toms through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-98.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Wasted Time - HQ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-44 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-54 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-71 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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