The Sickness In You & I · Muse

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 8 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
THE SICKNESS IN YOU & I · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 28, 50, 66 and 6 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 12 sections: 37 keep time, 12 are fills, 10 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-46.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFS12S1AA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sickness In You & I?

93 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 The Sickness In You & I hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sickness In You & I?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 28, 50, 66 and 6 more.

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