These Boots Are Made For Walking · 7 Seconds

75 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Punk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 16-17 and 19-23, and 6 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 31, 47, 59 and 67.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-58.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is These Boots Are Made For Walking?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is These Boots Are Made For Walking hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in These Boots Are Made For Walking?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 31, 47, 59 and 67.

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