The Dark Forest (Official) · Muse

141 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-37 and 46-63 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE DARK FOREST (OFFICIAL) · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 66, 67, 70, 71, 106, 107 and 7 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 106-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 15 sections: 86 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S8
PART L
PART N
PART U
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEFLCS8+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dark Forest (Official)?

127 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 The Dark Forest (Official) hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 The Dark Forest (Official)?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 66, 67, 70, 71, 106, 107 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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