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Walk Away · James Gang

Walk Away · James Gang
EXERCISE 19 OF 41
Chorus into Part E with the record (bars 20-27)
69 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walk Away on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-32, toms through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-x-x-x-x|
Walk Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-37 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 37-59 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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