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Wasting Love · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 16 OF 63
Groove I
39 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART A
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLAHAJAS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wasting Love on drums

100 bars, 5:21, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 7, and 3 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Wasting Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 30, 32 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wasting Love?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wasting Love hard to play on drums?

62 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Wasting Love?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 30, 32 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED