Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion · Meshuggah

230 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 23-24 and 42-45, and 15 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BREAK THOSE BONES WHOSE SINEWS GAVE IT MOTION · BAR 123
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 80, 93, 114 and 230.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 18 sections: 169 keep time, 5 are fills, 14 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-162.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART D
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBSQFE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 80, 93, 114 and 230.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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