Space Dementia · Muse

109 bars, 7:06, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-49 and 66-83 -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
SPACE DEMENTIA · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 19, 20, 28 and 12 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-83.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCFGS9H+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Space Dementia?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Space Dementia hard to play on drums?

46 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Space Dementia?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 19, 20, 28 and 12 more.

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