Demiurge · Meshuggah

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 98-99, 101-102 and 104-105, and 5 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
DEMIURGE · BARS 98-99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 26 and 27 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 69 keep time, 33 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-121.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART Z
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMAEBGS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demiurge?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Demiurge hard to play on drums?

65 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?

121 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Demiurge?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 26 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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