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Waves · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 27 OF 32
Fill at bar 100 (a small one)
97 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesAKS9FB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waves on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, ride through bars 36-44, hi-hat through bars 45-76, silence through bars 77-88, snare through bars 89-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-106, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-30, 51-55 and 61-67, and 1 more place -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x-----x--------|
Waves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 68, 94, 98, 100, 110 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-56 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-99 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Waves?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Waves hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Waves?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 68, 94, 98, 100, 110 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED