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Citizen Erased · Muse

EXERCISE 29 OF 45
Run M1 · Chorus (bars 46-83)
120 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMEGSR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Citizen Erased on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 6:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-44, ride through bars 45-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-72, 74-76 and 78-80 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x--x-x-xx---|
BD |x-x-------x--x--|
Citizen Erased -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- M, E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-38 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-97 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 107-131 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Citizen Erased?

92 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 Citizen Erased hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Citizen Erased?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED