Map Of The Problematique · Muse

133 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MAP OF THE PROBLEMATIQUE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 132 and 133.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 132-133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 117 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-67.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
8 groovesEHBGK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Map Of The Problematique?

125 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 Map Of The Problematique 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Map Of The Problematique?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 132 and 133.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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