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Humiliative · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AJ
PART AR
PART BB
OUTRO
11 groovesFAJARBBN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Humiliative on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, toms through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-58, toms through bars 59-73 and snare through bars 74-83, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 44-45, and 7 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |------xx------xx|-xx---------xx--|
Humiliative -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- F, AR -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-30 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Humiliative?

140 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 Humiliative hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Humiliative?

13 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED