Thought Contagion · Muse

118 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 22-29 and 54-61, and 6 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THOUGHT CONTAGION · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 21, 35, 36, 37, 53 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 84 keep time, 11 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-117.

CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCMES1B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thought Contagion?

140 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 Thought Contagion hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Thought Contagion?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 21, 35, 36, 37, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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