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(JFK) + Defector (Album) · Muse

EXERCISE 33 OF 35
Run C1 · Outro (bars 72-76)
80 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (JFK) + Defector (Album) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
BD |x-x-----x-------|x-x-----xxx-----|
HF |----------------|------------x---|
(JFK) + Defector (Album) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-44 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-77 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED