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Combustion · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Combustion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-44, snare through bars 45-92 and silence through bars 93-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Combustion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-28 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 91-141 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 134-152 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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