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Born To Run · Bruce Springsteen

EXERCISE 3 OF 65
Groove K -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGBAKJR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born To Run on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47 and ride through bars 48-100, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------x-----------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------x-----------x-----|
Born To Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-153 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-98 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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