004 Running · Big Bottom Boy

172 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-33, 35 and 37, and 13 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
004 RUNNING · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 5 sections: 156 keep time, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-82.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADIHS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 004 Running?

180 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 004 Running hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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