Take It On The Run · REO Speedwagon

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 1 more place -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
TAKE IT ON THE RUN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 32, 36, 56, 60, 64 and 1 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
VERSE
OUTRO
5 groovesCFJMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take It On The Run?

78 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 Take It On The Run hard to play on drums?

54 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Take It On The Run?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 32, 36, 56, 60, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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