Run Rudolph Run · Chuck Berry

104 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 26-36 and 38-60, and 4 more places -- 91.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 152 BPM
RUN RUDOLPH RUN · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 2 sections: 102 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-104.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run Rudolph Run?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Rudolph Run hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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