Runaway · Kanye West, Pusha T

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 39-54 and 79-110 -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
RUNAWAY · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-110.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART C
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCS1DS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway?

87 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?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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