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Exo-Politics · Muse

EXERCISE 12 OF 22
Groove E
111 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Exo-Politics on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 49-55, and 4 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---g---g---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Exo-Politics -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 48, 82, 98 and 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-64 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-118 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Exo-Politics?

123 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 Exo-Politics 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Exo-Politics?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 48, 82, 98 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED