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Running Away · Hoobastank

EXERCISE 14 OF 36
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 28-30)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Running Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, ride through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    13           14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-xxxx|x-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |---x--x-----|---x--x-----|
BD |x-x--x--x-x-|x-x--x--x-x-|
Running Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-47 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED