Walking The Delta · Black Fiend

58 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 1:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30 and 49-54 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
WALKING THE DELTA · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 7 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 38 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-40.

PART C
PART D
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKFICD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking The Delta?

113 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 The Delta hard to play on drums?

53 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Walking The Delta?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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