A Walk · Bad Religion

92 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-21, and 10 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
A WALK · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 23, 39, 43 and 8 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time, 14 are fills, 11 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1S4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Walk?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Walk hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in A Walk?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 23, 39, 43 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bad Religion drum parts

EVERY BAD RELIGION CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →