I Am Colossus · Meshuggah

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-7 and 11, and 12 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I AM COLOSSUS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 58, 62, 66 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 13 sections: 104 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART Q
PART E
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
7 groovesCQEDH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Colossus?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Am Colossus hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Am Colossus?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 58, 62, 66 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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