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Supermassive Black Hole (Live) · Muse

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove C
92 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
4 groovesBDS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Supermassive Black Hole (Live) on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and snare through bars 66-107.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
HF |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
Supermassive Black Hole (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-18 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 18-106 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED