Runaway Boys · Stray Cats

132 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on ride, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-35 and 37-51, and 5 more places -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
RUNAWAY BOYS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 132.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 132
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars: 131 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-131.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway Boys?

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

Is Runaway Boys hard to play on drums?

58 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Runaway Boys?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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