Walk Away · James Gang

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 37-39 and 55-57, and 5 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
WALK AWAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 22, 32, 40, 50 and 5 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-91.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJEDHS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walk Away?

102 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?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Walk Away?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 22, 32, 40, 50 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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