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Thought Contagion · Muse

EXERCISE 16 OF 31
Fill at bar 69
92 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCMES1B+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thought Contagion on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, toms through bars 22-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T1 |--------------xx|------------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x---x-----------|
Thought Contagion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-86 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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