Born In Dissonance · Meshuggah

176 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 7 and 10, and 23 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BORN IN DISSONANCE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 16, 21, 25 and 32 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 31 sections: 81 keep time, 38 are fills, 18 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-71.

PART C
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 5
18 groovesDCBMP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born In Dissonance?

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

Is Born In Dissonance hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Born In Dissonance?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 16, 21, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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