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Walkie Talkie Man · Steriogram

Walkie Talkie Man · Steriogram
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGBDMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walkie Talkie Man on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 22-23 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Walkie Talkie Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walkie Talkie Man?

141 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 Walkie Talkie Man hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Walkie Talkie Man?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED