Resistance · Muse

168 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-38, 40-46 and 88-92, and 1 more place -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
RESISTANCE · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 63, 67, 69, 73, 74, 87 and 12 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 19 sections: 110 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-51.

PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AD
15 groovesFOADCK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Resistance?

135 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 Resistance hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Resistance?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 63, 67, 69, 73, 74, 87 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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