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Run If You Can · Accept

EXERCISE 35 OF 69
Groove V
141 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART W
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run If You Can on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-47, snare through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-63, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x---x---xx----|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
Run If You Can -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-78 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-102 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 102-130 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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