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Panic Station · Muse

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove D -- Part D
48 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
5 groovesIFBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Panic Station on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 52-58 and 60-66, and 1 more place -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Panic Station -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 34, 43, 51, 59, 67 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- I, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-55 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Panic Station?

105 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 Panic Station hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Panic Station?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 22, 34, 43, 51, 59, 67 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED