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Runaway Train · Soul Asylum

Runaway Train · Soul Asylum
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 96 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Runaway Train on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-135.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-103 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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