Combustion · Meshuggah

225 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-23 and 46-48, and 25 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
COMBUSTION · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 60, 76, 116, 140, 148 and 4 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 140 · LANDS ON BAR 141
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 15 sections: 178 keep time, 10 are fills and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 209-225.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDFIJS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Combustion?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Combustion hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Combustion?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 60, 76, 116, 140, 148 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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