Ruby Tuesday · Rolling Stones

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 41-47 and 65-75, and 1 more place -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RUBY TUESDAY · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 6 sections: 28 keep time, 3 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-79.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS3S5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ruby Tuesday?

100 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 Tuesday hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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