The Walk · The Cure

105 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 23 more places -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE WALK · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 57, 65, 89, 97 and 105.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars: 99 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-56.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Walk?

132 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 The Walk hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Walk?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 57, 65, 89, 97 and 105.

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