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Runaway · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 10 OF 34
Groove I
46 / 73 BARS COVERED
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PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHES2S7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Runaway on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-41 and silence through bars 42-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22 and 37-38, and 8 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Runaway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 23, 24, 31 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-40 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-73 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Runaway?

76 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 Runaway hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 23, 24, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED