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Always Running · Kevin Sherwood

EXERCISE 12 OF 65
Join Break to Part E (bars 5-7)
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BREAK
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Always Running on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, ride through bars 15-19, snare through bars 20-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Always Running -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F, S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-19 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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