Walk This Way · Aerosmith

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 43-49, and 2 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
WALK THIS WAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 26, 62 and 69.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 89 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-61.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDCAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walk This Way?

107 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 This Way hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Walk This Way?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 26, 62 and 69.

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