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Stuck In A Rut · The Darkness

EXERCISE 13 OF 38
Groove J
75 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stuck In A Rut on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-63, toms through bars 64-66, snare through bars 67-75, hi-hat through bars 76-103 and silence through bars 104-108.

The beat

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.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----------------|------x---------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-----|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|x--x--------x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----------|
Stuck In A Rut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-58 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 56-64 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-80 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-108 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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