Running Away · Hoobastank

88 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 2:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 31-37 and 39-45 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RUNNING AWAY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 38, 46, 50 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 12 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBS1KRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Running Away?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Away hard to play on drums?

56 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Away?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 38, 46, 50 and 6 more.

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