Running For Money · Alternative Competition 6

56 bars, 3:27, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 31-33 and 47-49, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 65 BPM
RUNNING FOR MONEY · BAR 15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 30 and 44.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 4 sections: 46 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Running For Money?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Running For Money hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Running For Money?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 30 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Alternative Competition 6 drum parts

EVERY ALTERNATIVE COMPETITION 6 CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →