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The Handler · Muse

EXERCISE 14 OF 58
Join Part F to Part L (bars 39-41)
71 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Handler on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-43, toms through bars 44-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-69, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------f-------|
FT |------------xxxx|
BD |x---------------|
The Handler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 48-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-86 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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