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Cryogen · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesDAFPKH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cryogen on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-39, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-18 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-36 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-77 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cryogen?

133 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 Cryogen hard to play on drums?

60 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 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 Cryogen?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED