By The Ton · Meshuggah

198 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67, 70-71 and 75, and 5 more places -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BY THE TON · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 14 sections: 99 keep time, 53 are fills and 26 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-111.

PART Q
PART AE
CHORUS
PART BJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAOAMCEQAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By The Ton?

132 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 By The Ton hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 By The Ton?

12 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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