Run Around · Blues Traveler

176 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-25, 38-42 and 62-82, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
RUN AROUND · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 31, 43, 83, 105 and 176.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 16 sections: 148 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-82.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesDCPNL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run Around?

152 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 Run Around hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Run Around?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 31, 43, 83, 105 and 176.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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