12 RUN ON · ulti

117 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-20 and 24, and 15 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
12 RUN ON · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 18, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 79 keep time, 22 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-46.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
5 groovesEAHGTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 12 RUN ON?

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 12 RUN ON hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 12 RUN ON?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 18, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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