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I Walk Alone · Saliva

EXERCISE 22 OF 24
Join Part I to Break (bars 36-38)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, BREAK
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Walk Alone on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-37, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I Walk Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-17 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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