Liquor Run · Ruby Waters

68 bars, 3:53, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 1 more place -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
LIQUOR RUN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 66 and 67.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAECGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Liquor Run?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Liquor Run hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Liquor Run?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 66 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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