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RUN ON · ULTIMATE

RUN ON · ULTIMATE
EXERCISE 9 OF 28
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 11-13)
82 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJOCQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RUN ON on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
98/100

toms through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-58, ride through bars 59-68, hi-hat through bars 69-104, kick and crashes through bars 105-106 and toms through bars 107-108, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 14 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 120 and 121.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-66 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is RUN ON?

150 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 ON hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in RUN ON?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 120 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED