Do Not Look Down · Meshuggah

186 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 21 and 27, and 28 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DO NOT LOOK DOWN · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 16 sections: 115 keep time, 25 are fills and 25 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-163.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 4
5 groovesLRNOMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do Not Look Down?

160 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 Do Not Look Down hard to play on drums?

45 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Do Not Look Down?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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