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God He Sees in Mirrors · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 1 OF 113
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART F
PART Q
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART F
PART AC
PART BS
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART Q
OUTRO
15 groovesAQFACE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 20
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God He Sees in Mirrors on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-34, toms through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-43, toms through bars 44-48, snare through bars 49-89 and toms through bars 90-91, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x--x--x--x|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
God He Sees in Mirrors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- A, W (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-37 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 11-38 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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