Walking By Myself · Gary Moore

13 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 0:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:24
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4 and 6-10 -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
WALKING BY MYSELF · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 9, 12 and 13.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BARS 12-13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars: 9 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-8.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking By Myself?

129 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 By Myself hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Walking By Myself?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 9, 12 and 13.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 13 BARS ANALYSED
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