Knights Of Cydonia · Muse

191 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-36 and 38, and 5 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 21, 37 and 25 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 8 sections: 130 keep time, 31 are fills, 6 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

CHORUS
PART C
PART S5
PART X
OUTRO
7 groovesHZCS5X+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knights Of Cydonia?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Knights Of Cydonia hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Knights Of Cydonia?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 21, 37 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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