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Space Dementia · Muse

EXERCISE 30 OF 34
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 102-104)
102 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Space Dementia on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-18, toms through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------------|
Space Dementia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- F, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-36 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-83 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-104 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED