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Always Run To You · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 21 OF 40
Groove R (a two-bar phrase)
139 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Always Run To You on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-50, ride through bars 51-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-92 and ride through bars 93-106, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Always Run To You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-111 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-135 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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