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EXERCISE 14 OF 29
Run E1 · Part E (bars 27-30)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
VERSE
PART E
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Muscle Museum on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-28, toms through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-41, hi-hat through bars 42-56, toms through bars 57-58 and snare through bars 59-81.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, H -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-31 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-43 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED