Run To The Hills · Iron Maiden

153 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-38, 40-42 and 44-46, and 14 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RUN TO THE HILLS · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 68 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 7 sections: 123 keep time, 20 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART H
VERSE 2
PART J
VERSE 3
5 groovesCAHJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run To The Hills?

120 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 To The Hills hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 To The Hills?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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