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Born In Dissonance · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 3 OF 91
Groove C -- Part C
51 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART C
18 groovesDCBMP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born In Dissonance on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-143, kick and crashes through bars 144-145, silence through bars 146-150, toms through bars 151-153, silence through bars 154-159 and toms through bars 160-161, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---X---X---X---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x--xx-x-x-|
Born In Dissonance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-22 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-82 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-114 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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