Running Free · Iron Maiden

137 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 24 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
RUNNING FREE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 35 and 78.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 5 sections: 127 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-136.

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

Questions

What BPM is Running Free?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Running Free hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Free?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 35 and 78.

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