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Reapers · Muse

EXERCISE 21 OF 61
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 67-69)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reapers on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-68, hi-hat through bars 69-88, snare through bars 89-96, toms through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-113, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-89 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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