God He Sees in Mirrors · Meshuggah

182 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 10 and 23-24, and 11 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GOD HE SEES IN MIRRORS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 91 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 26 sections: 58 keep time, 97 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-133.

CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART F
PART AC
PART AC
15 groovesAQFACE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God He Sees in Mirrors?

150 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 God He Sees in Mirrors hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 God He Sees in Mirrors?

28 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 91 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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