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Sing For Absolution · Muse

EXERCISE 18 OF 33
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
77 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDGIK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sing For Absolution on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 3-25, toms through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-57, toms through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73 and ride through bars 74-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-24 and 34-56 -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 65, 73, 81, 85 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 80-86 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-93 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sing For Absolution?

86 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 Sing For Absolution hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Sing For Absolution?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 65, 73, 81, 85 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED