Walk All Over You · AC/DC

168 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 8:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
8:18
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-34, 37-38 and 41-42, and 14 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
WALK ALL OVER YOU · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 71, 73, 107, 155 and 5 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 163-166 · LANDS ON BAR 167 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 11 are fills, 28 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-55.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
6 groovesFBGKA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walk All Over You?

81 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 Walk All Over You hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 8:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Walk All Over You?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 71, 73, 107, 155 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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