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Demiurge · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
18 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demiurge on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-46, toms through bars 47-52, snare through bars 53-84, toms through bars 85-89 and snare through bars 90-121.

The beat

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.

    98               99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |-g-g----xg-g-g-g|-----g--xg-g-g--|
BD |-xx-xx-x--xx-xx-|xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-x|
Demiurge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-31 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-53 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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