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The Sound Of Muzak · Porcupine Tree

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove K -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesKS6S5LADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sound Of Muzak on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-29, ride through bars 30-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 16 and 18, and 3 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--xxx-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--------x---|
BD |x-----xx--x-----|
The Sound Of Muzak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, AD -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-60 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-69 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Sound Of Muzak?

94 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 Sound Of Muzak hard to play on drums?

59 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Sound Of Muzak?

8 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED