Walking On The Moon · The Police

183 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 14 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 147 BPM
WALKING ON THE MOON · BAR 152
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 16 sections: 160 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-183.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
PART P
PART U
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDAMQPN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking On The Moon?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Moon hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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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