Closed Eye Visuals · Meshuggah

244 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 15 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
CLOSED EYE VISUALS · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 14, 24, 30 and 62 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 18 sections: 118 keep time, 68 are fills, 2 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-165.

PART G
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AB
BREAK
OUTRO
10 groovesCABGS17E+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closed Eye Visuals?

133 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 Closed Eye Visuals hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Closed Eye Visuals?

20 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 14, 24, 30 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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