I Walk Alone · Saliva

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-28 and 30-32, and 2 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
I WALK ALONE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 19, 20 and 2 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 13 sections: 29 keep time, 8 are fills, 21 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-73.

PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK
CHORUS 3
PART I
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesGEIS12S2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Walk Alone?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I Walk Alone 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Walk Alone?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 19, 20 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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