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City Of Delusion · Muse

EXERCISE 9 OF 43
Groove C -- Part C
76 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesFHOIB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play City Of Delusion on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-19, toms through bars 20-28, snare through bars 29-38, toms through bars 39-43 and silence through bars 44-46, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-38, 72-80 and 114-122 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x--x---|
City Of Delusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 20, 29, 62, 71, 88 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 13-24 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is City Of Delusion?

120 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 City Of Delusion hard to play on drums?

55 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?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 City Of Delusion?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 20, 29, 62, 71, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED