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Ruination · Job For A Cowboy

EXERCISE 4 OF 48
14-bar fill at bar 9
58 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART S
PART X
PART S
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AO
OUTRO
10 groovesADSBAIAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ruination on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 2-26, silence through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-61, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-80, 82-88 and 111-124 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Ruination -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AD, S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 2-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-77 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ruination?

130 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 Ruination hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ruination?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED