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The Small Print · Muse

EXERCISE 22 OF 43
4-bar fill at bar 51
120 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Small Print on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, snare through bars 33-50, ride through bars 51-52, snare through bars 53-54 and ride through bars 55-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Small Print -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-66 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 76-103 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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