Waiting For My Ruca · Sublime

58 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-19, 22-31 and 34-35, and 4 more places -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
WAITING FOR MY RUCA · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 45 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-31.

PART S1
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesES1BS6S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting For My Ruca?

118 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 Waiting For My Ruca hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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