Born To Run · Bruce Springsteen

162 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 27 and 29-30, and 10 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 · 144 BPM
BORN TO RUN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 31, 35, 39 and 18 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 10 sections: 113 keep time, 24 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-52.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AK
8 groovesGBAKJR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Run?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Born To Run hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Born To Run?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 31, 35, 39 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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