Always On The Run · Lenny Kravitz

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21, 23 and 25-36, and 13 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
ALWAYS ON THE RUN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 43, 45, 47, 51, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 2 sections: 70 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-42.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always On The Run?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Always On The Run hard to play on drums?

39 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Always On The Run?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 43, 45, 47, 51, 74 and 2 more.

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