Reapers · Muse

158 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-22, 26-37 and 70-82 -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
REAPERS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 24, 39, 40, 42, 44 and 19 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 25 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
PART J
PART K
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
PART J
PART U
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAJDYK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reapers?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Reapers hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Reapers?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 24, 39, 40, 42, 44 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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