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The Walk · The Cure

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Fill at bar 57, 65, 89 and 97 (a small one)
100 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Walk on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-105.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xx-x-xo-xx-x-xo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Walk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED