Ruby Light And Dark · Broilers

148 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28 and 53-68 -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
RUBY LIGHT AND DARK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 11 sections: 138 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
PART D
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ruby Light And Dark?

170 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 Ruby Light And Dark hard to play on drums?

56 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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