Runaway · Linkin Park

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 25-27 and 29-32, and 2 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
RUNAWAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 43, 55, 56 and 10 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 55-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 62-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFJLS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway?

108 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 16 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 43, 55, 56 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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