Walls · Emery

136 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 26-31 and 66-72, and 2 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WALLS · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 33, 34 and 15 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 23 are fills, 30 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-80.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART Q
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S9
8 groovesFIS9BC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walls?

170 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 Walls hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Walls?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 33, 34 and 15 more.

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