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The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 29 PASSED · 145 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCAJFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner on drums

285 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 7:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
7:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-186, snare through bars 187-188 and hi-hat through bars 189-285.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-98, 101-102 and 105-106, and 3 more places -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 187 and 188.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-139 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 135-189 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner?

150 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 The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 7:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 187 and 188.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED