1 · State of Ruin

224 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 170-176, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
1 · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 30 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 23 sections: 145 keep time, 36 are fills, 11 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

PART D
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AK
PART D
PART K
PART N
18 groovesYDKNAK+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1?

160 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 1 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 1?

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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