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Survival · Muse

EXERCISE 21 OF 30
Fill at bar 58 (a small one)
67 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Survival on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x---x---x-x-----x---|
Survival -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-29 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED