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Rule of Nines · Spiritbox

EXERCISE 45 OF 45
Play the whole song with the record
90 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 101 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJWBGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rule of Nines on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 3-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, silence through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-61, hi-hat through bars 62-77 and snare through bars 78-101.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xx-x-x-x--x-x-xx|-x-x-xx---x-xxxx|
Rule of Nines -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-53 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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