Bliss · Muse

117 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 43-49, and 1 more place -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BLISS · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 50, 66, 84 and 2 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills, 26 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S5
PART H
PART L
7 groovesBGFHL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bliss?

128 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 Bliss hard to play on drums?

48 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor 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 Bliss?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 50, 66, 84 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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