Sunburn · Muse

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressive90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-23, 33-44 and 81-84 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SUNBURN · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 56, 64 and 72.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 70 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART K
6 groovesBEKFN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunburn?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sunburn hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sunburn?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 56, 64 and 72.

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