Muscle Museum · Muse

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 6 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MUSCLE MUSEUM · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 30, 38, 57, 58, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-25.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Muscle Museum?

80 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 Muscle Museum hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Muscle Museum?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 30, 38, 57, 58, 66 and 3 more.

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