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Walking Disaster · Sum 41

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 245 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 92 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECSPA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking Disaster on drums

245 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, silence through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-72 and snare through bars 73-81, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-72 and 76-77, and 15 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Walking Disaster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 75, 79, 82, 83, 98, 99 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-76 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 82-102 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 97-111 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-133 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 145-178 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 176-229 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walking Disaster?

164 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 Disaster hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Disaster?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 75, 79, 82, 83, 98, 99 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED