Supermassive Black Hole (Live) · Muse

107 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 18-24 and 26-32, and 6 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE (LIVE) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 7 sections: 96 keep time, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-72.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
4 groovesBDS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Supermassive Black Hole (Live)?

120 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 Supermassive Black Hole (Live) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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