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Walk This Way · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 20 OF 24
Run I1 · Outro (bars 71-74)
99 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDCAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walk This Way on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-54 and ride through bars 55-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-15 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED