Runnin' With The Devil · Van Halen

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 11 and 15, and 10 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 14 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGCUDO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runnin' With The Devil?

93 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 Runnin' With The Devil hard to play on drums?

62 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Runnin' With The Devil?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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