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Uprising · Muse

EXERCISE 12 OF 28
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 60-62)
142 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesBDS9S12S13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uprising on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, 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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bars 2-61, silence through bars 62-63, toms through bars 64-101, silence through bars 102-105, toms through bars 106-147 and silence through bars 148-149, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20, 46-52 and 54-56, and 5 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |------x-------x-|
FT |--x-------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Uprising -- 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 25, 45, 53, 64, 65, 85 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-54 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 60-102 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 125-152 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Uprising?

128 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 Uprising 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Uprising?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 45, 53, 64, 65, 85 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED