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Run · Snow Patrol

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run on drums

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

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44, silence through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Run -- 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 24 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED