Walk On The Wild Side · Lou Reed

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-95 -- 98.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-95.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walk On The Wild Side?

97 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 On The Wild Side hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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