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.

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

TEMPO

93 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

80

LENGTH

3:26

DIFFICULTY

62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-66, ride through bars 67-70, kick and crashes through bars 71-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-76, and 1 more change after that.

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----X-x-x-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

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

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 12-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Bars 41-67 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Bars 47-65 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.