My Muse · Leon Thomas

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 18-20 and 22-24, and 9 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MY MUSE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 5 sections: 62 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-36.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Muse?

100 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 My Muse hard to play on drums?

39 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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