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Long Distance Runaround · Yes

EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Run K1 · Chorus (bars 33-69)
83 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Distance Runaround on drums

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

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-19, ride through bars 20-26, snare through bars 27-28 and silence through bars 29-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---------x-|--------x-------|
Long Distance Runaround -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- K, J, M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-99 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED