Run · Snow Patrol

108 bars, 5:46, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 53-59, and 5 more places -- 64% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
RUN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 52.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 94 keep time, 2 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-108.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run?

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 hard to play on drums?

33 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Run?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 52.

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