Waterloo · ABBA

98 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-47, 49-73 and 75-98 -- 98% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
WATERLOO · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars: 92 keep time and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-40.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waterloo?

148 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 Waterloo hard to play on drums?

27 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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