Run (mau) · Snow Patrol

78 bars, 4:10, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36 and 47-70 -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
RUN (MAU) · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 46.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-70.

PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBFS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run (mau)?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Run (mau) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Run (mau)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 46.

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