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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

191

LENGTH

5:27

DIFFICULTY

80/100

toms through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-81, toms through bars 82-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-100, hi-hat through bars 101-103 and silence through bars 104-118, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    19
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
FT |x--------x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--|
BD |g--------g-----------g--g--------g-----------g--|

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

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z, X -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.