Wasting My Time · Default

140 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 25 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WASTING MY TIME · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 9 sections: 76 keep time, 37 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-85.

PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHS7DES2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasting My Time?

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 Wasting My Time hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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