White Walls for 2 guitars · Between The Buried And Me

477 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 14:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
477
LENGTH
14:57
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 3.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
WHITE WALLS FOR 2 GUITARS · BAR 20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

55 fills to learn, played 171 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14 and 165 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

52 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

477 bars across 43 sections: 195 keep time, 171 are fills, 24 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 199-213.

PART Z
CHORUS 2
BREAK 7
37 groovesAZS43ZEAX+32Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Walls for 2 guitars?

135 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 White Walls for 2 guitars hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

477 bars, about 14:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 186 exercises over 62 sittings, about 26 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 White Walls for 2 guitars?

55 fills to learn, played 171 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14 and 165 more.

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