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Combustion (offset 8th note) · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 17 OF 43
Fill at bar 173 and 181 (a small one)
185 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Combustion (offset 8th note) on drums

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.

61 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
226
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, silence through bars 43-45 and snare through bars 46-93, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Combustion (offset 8th note) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-174 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 139-173 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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