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Runnin' Down a Dream · Tom Petty

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Runnin' Down a Dream on drums

181 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-181.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 35-37 and 39-54, and 4 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Runnin' Down a Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 38, 66, 67, 105, 106, 121 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-68 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-147 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Runnin' Down a Dream?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Runnin' Down a Dream hard to play on drums?

60 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Runnin' Down a Dream?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 38, 66, 67, 105, 106, 121 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED