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Run To The Hills · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Join Chorus to Verse (bars 23-25)
104 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE
PART H
VERSE 2
PART J
VERSE 3
5 groovesCAHJMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run To The Hills on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-144, kick and crashes through bars 145-150 and toms through bars 151-153.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Run To The Hills -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 125-153 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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