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Running Alone · Angra

EXERCISE 25 OF 46
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
191 / 258 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART F
PART M
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesOMABFAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Running Alone on drums

258 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 6:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
6:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-120 and toms through bars 121-123, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-65, 67-71 and 74-88, and 2 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Running Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 41, 72 and 138.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- O, M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-62 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part W and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Running Alone?

152 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 Running Alone hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 6:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Running Alone?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 41, 72 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED