Walking Away · Underoath, Aaron Gillespie, Corey Steger, Dallas Taylor, Octavio Fernandez, Chris Dudley, Matthew Clark

305 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 8:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
8:25
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 152, 154-160 and 162-169, and 2 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WALKING AWAY · BAR 155
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 46, 70, 72 and 25 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

305 bars across 31 sections: 176 keep time, 31 are fills, 35 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-111.

PART V
CHORUS
PART AN
OUTRO 2
24 groovesAIVCAAN+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking Away?

145 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 Walking Away hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 8:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 103 exercises over 31 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Walking Away?

22 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 46, 70, 72 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED
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