Run To You (Classic Version) · Bryan Adams

116 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 54-60 and 62-64, and 4 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
RUN TO YOU (CLASSIC VERSION) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 48, 52, 86, 100 and 108.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGAES10D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run To You (Classic Version)?

124 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 You (Classic Version) hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Run To You (Classic Version)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 48, 52, 86, 100 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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