Runnin' Wild · Airbourne

127 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 17-21 and 23-29, and 8 more places -- 70.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
RUNNIN' WILD · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 86 and 126.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 4 sections: 120 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-70.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runnin' Wild?

162 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' Wild hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Runnin' Wild?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 86 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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