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Rusty Cage · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove K -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKAIWS1AD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rusty Cage on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-63, snare through bars 64-66, ride through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K, W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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