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Runaway · Del Shannon

Runaway · Del Shannon
EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
85 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Runaway on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 3-44, ride through bars 45-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-87.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Runaway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-40 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-87 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED