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Showbiz · Muse

EXERCISE 12 OF 26
Run C1 · Part C (bars 34-57)
120 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART S2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKCADS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Showbiz on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
41/100

toms through bars 1-22, silence through bars 23-33, toms through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-65 and toms through bars 66-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-72, 74-80 and 98-104, and 5 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Showbiz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 65 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- K, A, C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-55 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-69 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Showbiz?

114 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 Showbiz hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Showbiz?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 65 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED