Rust · Black Label Society

138 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 27 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
RUST · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 70, 74, 77, 78, 82 and 3 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 15 sections: 78 keep time, 9 are fills, 14 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-19.

CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 3
PART S9
PART J
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCJQS4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rust?

127 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 Rust hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 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 Rust?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 70, 74, 77, 78, 82 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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