Run If You Can · Accept

185 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-16, and 8 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
RUN IF YOU CAN · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 23, 24, 25, 41, 45 and 33 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 15 sections: 122 keep time, 40 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-127.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
5 groovesMBFWAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run If You Can?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Run If You Can hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 If You Can?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 17, 23, 24, 25, 41, 45 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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