Walkin' On the Sun · Smash Mouth

101 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-68, 77-83 and 85-100 -- 82.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
WALKIN' ON THE SUN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 4 sections: 97 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-68.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walkin' On the Sun?

123 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 Sun hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Walkin' On the Sun?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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