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Drunk Walk Home · Mitski

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drunk Walk Home on drums

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.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
23/100

toms through bars 1-47, hi-hat through bars 48-56 and toms through bars 57-70.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....
FT |x--x--x--x--x-----|
Drunk Walk Home -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 44-59 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED