Rule of Nines · Spiritbox

101 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 2 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
RULE OF NINES · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18 and 28 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 34 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-25.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJWBGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rule of Nines?

117 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 Rule of Nines hard to play on drums?

64 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Rule of Nines?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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