Stuck In A Rut · The Darkness

108 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-29, 48-54 and 69-75, and 2 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
STUCK IN A RUT · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 5, 55, 59, 79, 83 and 1 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 7 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-100.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
9 groovesGBLTP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stuck In A Rut?

132 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 Stuck In A Rut hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Stuck In A Rut?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 5, 55, 59, 79, 83 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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