Survival · Muse

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-38, 40-43 and 45, and 10 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
SURVIVAL · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 39, 44, 46, 52, 58 and 2 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 5 sections: 67 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-77.

PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Survival?

84 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 Survival hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Survival?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 39, 44, 46, 52, 58 and 2 more.

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