Band On The Run · Paul McCartney & Wings

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 62-66 and 69, and 10 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAND ON THE RUN · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 60, 67, 68, 76, 84, 91 and 10 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 97-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 7 sections: 106 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

PART B
PART F
PART S4
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesJBFS4X+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Band On The Run?

83 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 Band On The Run hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Band On The Run?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 60, 67, 68, 76, 84, 91 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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