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The walls · Chase Atlantic

EXERCISE 17 OF 27
Join Part B to Part A (bars 71-73)
80 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A
COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBAS1S3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The walls on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-42, 49-51 and 53-54, and 7 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|
The walls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 84 and 110.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- I, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-49 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-115 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-107 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The walls?

140 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 walls hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The walls?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 48, 84 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED