Run · Foo Fighters

183 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-53, 55-57 and 59-60, and 8 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
RUN · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88 and 27 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 33 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART X
CHORUS 3
8 groovesENGS1X+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Run?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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