Always Run To You · Bon Jovi

165 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 27-41, and 12 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
ALWAYS RUN TO YOU · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 42, 50, 84, 92, 108 and 7 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 8 sections: 123 keep time, 14 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-165.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
4 groovesPIAYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always Run To You?

133 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 Run To You hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Always Run To You?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 42, 50, 84, 92, 108 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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