United States Of Eurasia · Muse

59 bars, 3:28, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24 and 45-52 -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 68 BPM
UNITED STATES OF EURASIA · BAR 18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 15 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 11-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 53-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 8 sections: 27 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBLJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is United States Of Eurasia?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is United States Of Eurasia hard to play on drums?

63 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 United States Of Eurasia?

4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 15 more.

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