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Rusty Nail · X JAPAN

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Fill at bar 54 and 100 (a small one)
99 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S6
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCVBS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rusty Nail on drums

233 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-114, kick and crashes through bars 115-116, silence through bars 117-130, ride through bars 131-150 and toms through bars 151-160, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 29 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Rusty Nail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 62 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 92-131 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rusty Nail?

175 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 Nail hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Nail?

13 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED