I Rule The Ruins (full) · WarlocK

166 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-34, 36-51 and 53-79, and 2 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 163 BPM
I RULE THE RUINS (FULL) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 52, 80, 93, 113, 123 and 3 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 12 sections: 137 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-79.

CHORUS
PART C
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECQOS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Rule The Ruins (full)?

163 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 I Rule The Ruins (full) hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Rule The Ruins (full)?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 52, 80, 93, 113, 123 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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