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Ruiner · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
VERSE
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCADHS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ruiner on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, snare through bars 65-80, silence through bars 81-94 and toms through bars 95-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40, 65-80 and 113-144 -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ruiner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 95, 96, 103 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-96 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-144 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ruiner?

118 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 Ruiner hard to play on drums?

54 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Ruiner?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 95, 96, 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED