Walking On Sunshine · Katrina And The Waves

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 19 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
WALKING ON SUNSHINE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 3 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-75.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking On Sunshine?

108 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 On Sunshine hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Walking On Sunshine?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

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