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Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove C -- Part C
102 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART Q
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBSQFE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-48, hi-hat through bars 49-80, snare through bars 81-96, silence through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-114, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x-----x---|
Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B, Q, S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-55 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-97 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 107-130 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 122-163 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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