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Madness · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Madness on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bars 3-56, silence through bars 57-58, snare through bars 59-68, hi-hat through bars 69-100 and snare through bars 101-104.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
Madness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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