Madness · Muse

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-56, 59-67 and 101-103 -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MADNESS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 84 and 92.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 5 sections: 96 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-56.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Madness?

90 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 Madness hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Madness?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 84 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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