Runaway Train · Soul Asylum

135 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8, and 27 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
RUNAWAY TRAIN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 47, 55, 63 and 2 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 3 sections: 122 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-135.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runaway Train?

112 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 Train hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Runaway Train?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 47, 55, 63 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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