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Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith) · Run-DMC

EXERCISE 3 OF 7
Groove C
124 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith) on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7, and 12 more places -- 88.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith)?

110 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 (feat. Aerosmith) hard to play on drums?

58 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?

137 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED