Road Runner · Aerosmith

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 17 and 19-22, and 18 more places -- 68% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROAD RUNNER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 18, 32, 36, 38, 40 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 2 sections: 77 keep time, 11 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-98.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Road Runner?

120 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 Road Runner hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Road Runner?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 18, 32, 36, 38, 40 and 5 more.

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