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Ruby Soho · Rancid

EXERCISE 22 OF 37
Join Part I to Part D (bars 53-55)
94 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
PART M
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGIMDNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ruby Soho on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Ruby Soho -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-78 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 75-98 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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