In The Ruins · Mastodon

185 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-23 and 26-27, and 6 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
IN THE RUINS · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 38 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 20 sections: 113 keep time, 44 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

PART H
CHORUS
PART X
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART BG
PART BK
15 groovesMBKHXAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Ruins?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In The Ruins hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 31 sittings, about 25 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 In The Ruins?

32 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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