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Resistance · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Resistance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-47, hi-hat through bars 48-63 and ride through bars 64-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T1 |--------------xx|----------------|
T2 |----------------|x---------xx--xx|
FT |xxxx-xxxxxxx-x--|-xxx-xxxxx---x--|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Resistance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-86 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-60 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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