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Rust · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove E
77 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rust on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-55, silence through bars 56-60 and ride through bars 61-62, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Rust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 70, 74, 77, 78, 82 and 3 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 -- D, C, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 40-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-72 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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