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Run Around · Blues Traveler

Run Around · Blues Traveler
EXERCISE 8 OF 46
Groove H
112 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run Around on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 2-31, snare through bars 32-37, hi-hat through bars 38-43, snare through bars 44-55, hi-hat through bars 56-105 and ride through bars 106-109, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
Run Around -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-20 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 47-84 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 106-136 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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