Drunk Walk Home · Mitski

70 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 2:25 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-47 -- 67.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
DRUNK WALK HOME · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 62, 63, 64 and 65.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 3 sections: 63 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-47.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drunk Walk Home?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Drunk Walk Home hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drunk Walk Home?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 62, 63, 64 and 65.

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