Ruby Soho · Rancid

103 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 33-47 -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
RUBY SOHO · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 48, 52, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 102-103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-78.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGIMDNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ruby Soho?

162 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 Soho hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ruby Soho?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 24, 28, 48, 52, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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