Ruin The Best Of Me · Holder

208 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 17 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
RUIN THE BEST OF ME · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 23, 31, 39, 62 and 26 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 27 sections: 112 keep time, 32 are fills, 23 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-55.

CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART V
20 groovesFJVMAK+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ruin The Best Of Me?

180 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 Ruin The Best Of Me 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Best Of Me?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 23, 31, 39, 62 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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