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Walking In Circles · Dead By Sunrise

Walking In Circles · Dead By Sunrise
EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove L -- Part L
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PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART L
CHORUS 6
PART R
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFLCRAA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking In Circles on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-120, toms through bars 121-122, ride through bars 123-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-208.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
BD |x-------x---|
Walking In Circles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-70 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-115 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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