MUSE · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Uprising (Live)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20, 22-32 and 34-40, and 8 more places -- 70.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 130 BPM
UPRISING (LIVE) · BAR 2

It is played on snare, floor tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 53 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 98 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 98, 114 and 130 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Uprising (Live) use?

A one-bar groove on snare, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 70.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-20, 22-32, 34-40 and 42-52, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Uprising (Live) hard?

40 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED