Walking In Circles · Dead By Sunrise

208 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 22 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
WALKING IN CIRCLES · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 38, 42, 50 and 22 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 28 are fills and 54 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-208.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 6
PART R
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFLCRAA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking In Circles?

132 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 In Circles hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In Circles?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 38, 42, 50 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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