I Walk Beside You · Dream Theater

141 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 81-87, and 3 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
I WALK BESIDE YOU · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 36, 44, 52, 64, 72, 80 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 101 keep time, 14 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART S2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART P
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKHVED+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Walk Beside You?

130 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 Beside You hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Beside You?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 36, 44, 52, 64, 72, 80 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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