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A Walk · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1S4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Walk on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-47, snare through bars 48-53, hi-hat through bars 54-90 and snare through bars 91-92.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
A Walk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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