Editing Walk This Way (section)

===Music===
The song starts out with a two measure drum beat intro by [[Joey Kramer]], followed by a guitar riff composed by Joe Perry. The song proceeds with the main riff, with Perry and [[Brad Whitford]] on guitar with [[Tom Hamilton (musician)|Tom Hamilton]] on bass. The song continues with rapid fire lyrics by Steven Tyler.

In December 1974, Aerosmith opened for [[the Guess Who]] in [[Honolulu]]. During the sound check, guitarist [[Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry]] was "fooling around with riffs and thinking about [[the Meters]]," a group guitarist [[Jeff Beck]] had turned him on to. Loving "their riffy [[New Orleans]] [[Funk music|funk]], especially '[[Cissy Strut]]' and 'People Say'", he asked the drummer "to lay down something flat with a groove on the drums." The guitar [[riff]] to what would become "Walk This Way" just "came off [his] hands."<ref name=Myers>{{cite news|last1=Myers|first1=Marc|title=How Aerosmith Created 'Walk This Way': A look at how the hard-rock band, inspired in part by 'Young Frankenstein,' came up with a song that would become a top-10 hit twice|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-aerosmith-created-walk-this-way-1410275586|access-date=October 22, 2017|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=September 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310124931/http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-aerosmith-created-walk-this-way-1410275586|archive-date=March 10, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Needing a bridge, he:{{blockquote|...played another riff and went there. But I didn't want the song to have a typical, boring 1, 4, 5 chord progression. After playing the first riff in the key of C, I shifted to E before returning to C for the verse and chorus. By the end of the sound check, I had the basics of a song.<ref name=Myers />}}