The Small Print · Muse

139 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 63-69, and 4 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE SMALL PRINT · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 51, 52, 53 and 10 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 51-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 100 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-77.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHBNP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Small Print?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Small Print hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 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 Small Print?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 32, 51, 52, 53 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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