Runaway · Del Shannon

87 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 13-18 and 21-28, and 3 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
RUNAWAY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 77 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-28.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway?

152 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?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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