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The Sickness In You & I · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFS12S1AA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sickness In You & I on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and toms through bars 31-33, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
The Sickness In You & I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED