Walkabout · Red Hot Chili Peppers

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-32, 38-44 and 46-48, and 9 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WALKABOUT · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 16 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 7-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 66-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesLNMBQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walkabout?

92 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 Walkabout hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Walkabout?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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