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Closed Eye Visuals · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 3 OF 97
Groove E -- Part E
43 / 244 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AB
BREAK
OUTRO
10 groovesCABGS17E+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closed Eye Visuals on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-68, hi-hat through bars 69-86 and snare through bars 87-142, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-X-x---x---x---|x---x-x-x---x---|
SD |--x-------------|x-----x---------|
BD |x-----x-x---x-x-|--x-x-----x-x---|
Closed Eye Visuals -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- C, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-20 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-137 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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