Blackout · Muse

81 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 60 BPM, 4:03 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-44 -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BLACKOUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 4 sections: 72 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-44.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blackout?

60 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Blackout hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Blackout?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

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