Bleed · Meshuggah

211 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-43, 45-46 and 48-49, and 8 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BLEED · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 128 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 16 and 122 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 15 sections: 55 keep time, 128 are fills and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 192-208.

PART C
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AW
BREAK 2
PART S9
PART S13
OUTRO 2
14 groovesNS4CS9S8+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bleed?

115 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 Bleed hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 23 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 Bleed?

12 fills to learn, played 128 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 16 and 122 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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