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Music To Walk Home By · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Groove AI -- Outro
26 / 124 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Music To Walk Home By on drums

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.

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
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and toms through bars 41-44, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------xx----|--xx------xx----|
Music To Walk Home By -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI, Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-37 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-65 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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