Walking Barefoot · Ash

173 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 52-70, 96-105 and 138-156 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 167 BPM
WALKING BAREFOOT · BARS 52-53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 6 sections: 132 keep time, 1 is a fill, 6 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-106.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHES1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking Barefoot?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Walking Barefoot hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Walking Barefoot?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.

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