Future Breed Machine · Meshuggah

195 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-72, 74-80 and 117, and 4 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
FUTURE BREED MACHINE · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 68 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 14-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 39-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 19 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 15 sections: 61 keep time, 75 are fills, 7 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART S3
PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAES15RS3S7+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Future Breed Machine?

166 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 Future Breed Machine hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Future Breed Machine?

14 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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