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Walk With Me · Bôa

EXERCISE 5 OF 32
Groove F
29 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
PART I
PART L
PART K
CHORUS
PART L
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGQS7BK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walk With Me on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, silence through bars 44-52, hi-hat through bars 53-54, ride through bars 55-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 21 and 37, and 7 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-x---------|
Walk With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 42 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walk With Me?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 With Me hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, 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 With Me?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 42 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED