Walking Dead Man · Tx2

138 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 44-50 and 52-82, and 3 more places -- 79.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
WALKING DEAD MAN · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 100.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 43 keep time, 2 are fills, 55 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-33.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART S9
BREAK 3
OUTRO
11 groovesBS5S9S1C+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking Dead Man?

160 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 Dead Man hard to play on drums?

28 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Walking Dead Man?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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