Behind The Sun · Meshuggah

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BEHIND THE SUN · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 56, 57, 58, 59, 68, 70 and 40 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 56-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 9 sections: 82 keep time, 46 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART P
PART X
PART AP
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAXAPPX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Behind The Sun?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Behind The Sun 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Behind The Sun?

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 56, 57, 58, 59, 68, 70 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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