Autonomy Lost · Meshuggah

50 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:40 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AUTONOMY LOST · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 38, 42, 46 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 3 sections: 41 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-32.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Autonomy Lost?

120 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 Autonomy Lost hard to play on drums?

52 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?

50 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Autonomy Lost?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 38, 42, 46 and 1 more.

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