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Plug In Baby · Muse

EXERCISE 4 OF 21
Groove D
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0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plug In Baby on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, toms through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-23 and 25-30, and 9 more places -- 70.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Plug In Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 48, 66, 73 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 40-95 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-95 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Plug In Baby?

136 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 Plug In Baby hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Plug In Baby?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 48, 66, 73 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED