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Band On The Run · Paul McCartney & Wings

EXERCISE 18 OF 41
Groove O -- Outro 2
92 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART F
PART S4
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBFS4X+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Band On The Run on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
43/100

ride through bars 2-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44, silence through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-97, kick and crashes through bars 98-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-123, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Band On The Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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