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Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1BEHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-63, toms through bars 64-80 and snare through bars 81-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47 and 65-79 -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-xx--xxx-xx-xx-|
BD |x-xx--xxx-xx-xxx|
Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 52, 60, 80, 84 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-67 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)?

108 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 Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 52, 60, 80, 84 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED