Running In Circles · Dead Poet Society

135 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 23 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
RUNNING IN CIRCLES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 63, 132, 133, 134 and 135.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 132-135 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 14 sections: 107 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-51.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesKHDMF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Running In Circles?

142 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 In Circles hard to play on drums?

63 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 In Circles?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 63, 132, 133, 134 and 135.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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