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Walkin' On the Sun · Smash Mouth

EXERCISE 6 OF 12
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 9-68)
99 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walkin' On the Sun on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
37/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-68, ride through bars 69-76 and snare through bars 77-101.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Walkin' On the Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED