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Runaway · Jamiroquai

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEDFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Runaway on drums

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

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
29/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-85 and snare through bars 86-116.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x--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 15 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 57-88 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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