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Future Breed Machine · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 13 OF 65
Run S31 · Part S3 (bars 10-33)
63 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3
PART S3
PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAES15RS3S7+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Future Breed Machine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, ride through bars 26-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Future Breed Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-59 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-66 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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