Dead Star · Muse

142 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 58-65 and 110-116, and 2 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DEAD STAR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 29, 45, 57, 81, 97 and 6 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 104 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-28.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCEMIK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Star?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dead Star hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:33 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, 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 Dead Star?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 29, 45, 57, 81, 97 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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