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Run · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 14 OF 61
Groove J
100 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART N, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-31, silence through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |---------x--------x--------------x--------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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