Combustion (offset 8th note) · Meshuggah

226 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 46-48, and 25 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
COMBUSTION (OFFSET 8TH NOTE) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 61, 77, 117, 141, 149 and 5 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 149 · LANDS ON BAR 150

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 14 sections: 180 keep time, 11 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-137.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGKMS12+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Combustion (offset 8th note)?

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 (offset 8th note) hard to play on drums?

61 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?

226 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 (offset 8th note)?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 61, 77, 117, 141, 149 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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