Walk Away · Franz Ferdinand

102 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-24, and 14 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
WALK AWAY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 21, 51, 52, 72, 100 and 1 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 86 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-50.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walk Away?

124 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 Away hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Walk Away?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 21, 51, 52, 72, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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