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Time Is Running Out · Muse

EXERCISE 13 OF 46
Groove H -- Part H
70 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART J
PART L
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFPLJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time Is Running Out on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, toms through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-35, toms through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED