Runaway · Jamiroquai

116 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 57-76 and 85-116 -- 60.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
RUNAWAY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-116.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway?

127 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?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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