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EXERCISE 24 OF 24
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEFGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking In My Shoes on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 61-70 and 75-101 -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx------x|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Walking In My Shoes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-59 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-71 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-107 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Walking In My Shoes?

93 BPM, in 4/4, 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 My Shoes hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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