walking with you · Novelbright

169 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 33 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
WALKING WITH YOU · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 22 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 23 sections: 80 keep time, 28 are fills, 34 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

CHORUS 3
PART H
PART H
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEHDMAE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is walking with you?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is walking with you hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in walking with you?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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