The Handler · Muse

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7, and 16 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE HANDLER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 42 and 24 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 30 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-97.

CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART R
VERSE
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBFLYS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Handler?

130 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 Handler hard to play on drums?

60 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Handler?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 42 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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