Beneath · Meshuggah

109 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 5:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BENEATH · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 36-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 35 keep time, 5 are fills and 58 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesS9FSHS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beneath?

158 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Beneath hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Beneath?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40.

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