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Ruin · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove H
40 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART M
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART M
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAYGMD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ruin on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 17-20 and 34, and 10 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Ruin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 32, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ruin?

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ruin hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ruin?

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 32, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED