Thru The Eyes Of Ruby · Smashing Pumpkins

122 bars, 6:57, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36-40 and 42, and 9 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
THRU THE EYES OF RUBY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 22, 23 and 24 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 15 sections: 71 keep time, 30 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-118.

PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AE
PART AI
OUTRO
13 groovesRAOGAAAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thru The Eyes Of Ruby?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Thru The Eyes Of Ruby hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Thru The Eyes Of Ruby?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 22, 23 and 24 more.

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