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Walking The Delta · Black Fiend

Walking The Delta · Black Fiend
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove I -- Part I
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0 / 26 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking The Delta on drums

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

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-31, ride through bars 32-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-55, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---------|
BD |-x----x-x--x|
Walking The Delta -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-25 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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