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Walkin on the Sidewalks · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove AH -- Outro 2
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PART C
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHCYWA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walkin on the Sidewalks on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-41, toms through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-106, 108-112 and 114-123 -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---------o-|
SD |----x---------f-|
T2 |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----f-x-----|
HF |x-----x-----x---|
Walkin on the Sidewalks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- AH, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 41 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-49 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part W and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walkin on the Sidewalks?

100 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 Walkin on the Sidewalks hard to play on drums?

61 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Walkin on the Sidewalks?

8 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED