Time Is Running Out · Muse

116 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19 and 78-87 -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TIME IS RUNNING OUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 60, 68, 72, 75, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 84 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART J
PART L
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART F
OUTRO
8 groovesBFPLJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time Is Running Out?

118 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 Time Is Running Out hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Time Is Running Out?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 60, 68, 72, 75, 76 and 4 more.

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