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Walking on the Edge · SONS OF LEGION

Walking on the Edge · SONS OF LEGION
EXERCISE 13 OF 23
Run M1 · Part M (bars 62-67)
67 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1PMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking on the Edge on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-30, silence through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-61, ride through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 8 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 21, 53, 74, 86 and 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-75 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Walking on the Edge?

84 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 the Edge hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 on the Edge?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 21, 53, 74, 86 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED