Ruby · Kaiser Chiefs

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 38-44 and 64-75 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
RUBY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 1 is a fill, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-75.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ruby?

93 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ruby hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Ruby?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

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