Long Distance Runaround · Yes

103 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-35, 39-40 and 44, and 8 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 102.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-68.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesKBS1CF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Distance Runaround?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Long Distance Runaround hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Long Distance Runaround?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 102.

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