▲ Runaway ▲ · Fun People

76 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
▲ RUNAWAY ▲ · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 28, 32, 36 and 2 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 42 keep time, 8 are fills, 7 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-60.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesES6JKF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ▲ Runaway ▲?

143 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?

57 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in ▲ Runaway ▲?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 28, 32, 36 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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