Walk Of Life · Dire Straits

161 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-54 and 57-63, and 8 more places -- 81% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WALK OF LIFE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 96, 112, 136 and 160.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 4 sections: 146 keep time, 5 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-63.

PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walk Of Life?

170 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 Walk Of Life hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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 Walk Of Life?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 96, 112, 136 and 160.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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