Rusty Cage · Soundgarden

201 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-49, 51-60 and 76-89, and 3 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 204 BPM
RUSTY CAGE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66 and 16 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 7 sections: 130 keep time, 22 are fills, 28 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-102.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKAIWS1AD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rusty Cage?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rusty Cage hard to play on drums?

63 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?

201 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Rusty Cage?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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