Music To Walk Home By · Tame Impala

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-16 and 21-22, and 2 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MUSIC TO WALK HOME BY · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 18 sections: 83 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-120.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
13 groovesAAIQUL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Music To Walk Home By?

100 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 Music To Walk Home By 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Music To Walk Home By?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 18, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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