Runaway Baby · Bruno Mars

99 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 21 and 27-32, and 3 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
RUNAWAY BABY · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 17 sections: 66 keep time, 1 is a fill, 7 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-66.

PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEBFS13D+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway Baby?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Runaway Baby hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Runaway Baby?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

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