Time Is Running Out · Papa Roach

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 21-23 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
TIME IS RUNNING OUT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 68, 70 and 71.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-67.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time Is Running Out?

92 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 Time Is Running Out hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Time Is Running Out?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 68, 70 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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