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Thru The Eyes Of Ruby · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 19 OF 79
Fill at bar 27 and 29 (a small one)
56 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thru The Eyes Of Ruby on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x---x---|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x-----x---|
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-11 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-34 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED