Corridor Of Chameleons · Meshuggah

217 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 9 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
CORRIDOR OF CHAMELEONS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 69, 70 and 40 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 57-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 104-120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 8 sections: 141 keep time, 46 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-56.

CHORUS
PART E
PART L
PART M
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAXWML+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Corridor Of Chameleons?

176 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 Corridor Of Chameleons hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Corridor Of Chameleons?

9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 69, 70 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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