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I Walk Beside You · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 16 OF 55
Groove G -- Outro 2
102 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Walk Beside You on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
I Walk Beside You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-97 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-134 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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