Running With the Bulls - IA · Kiko Loureiro

177 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 59, and 4 more places -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
RUNNING WITH THE BULLS - IA · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 40 and 22 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 14 sections: 62 keep time, 28 are fills, 13 are stops and 64 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-96.

COUNT-IN
PART K
PART S
PART AA
PART I
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 3
14 groovesALS8S1KS14+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Running With the Bulls - IA?

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

Is Running With the Bulls - IA hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 With the Bulls - IA?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 40 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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