(JFK) + Defector (Album) · Muse

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 6 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
(JFK) + DEFECTOR (ALBUM) · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 40, 44, 56, 60, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-17.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMKHC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (JFK) + Defector (Album)?

77 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 (JFK) + Defector (Album) 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?

85 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 (JFK) + Defector (Album)?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 40, 44, 56, 60, 64 and 4 more.

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