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Runaway · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 17 OF 32
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
63 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Runaway on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-63, toms through bars 64-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-83.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x---x---x----|
Runaway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-25 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 48-68 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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