ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raul Ruru on drums

160 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 172 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 160
LENGTH: 3:48
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, silence through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33 and silence through bars 34-35, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29, 33 and 37-38, and 13 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|--------------------------------|
SD |----x---------------x-----------|x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-------|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|----------------------------x---|

Raul Ruru -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- H, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part F and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part I and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Raul Ruru?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Raul Ruru hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED