Always Running · Kevin Sherwood

127 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 20, and 24 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
ALWAYS RUNNING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 21, 31, 55 and 13 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 54 keep time, 19 are fills, 29 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-30.

PART E
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFSS11OE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always Running?

124 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 Running hard to play on drums?

42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Running?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 21, 31, 55 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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