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I Am Colossus · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
38 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Colossus on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-58, snare through bars 59-62, hi-hat through bars 63-79, snare through bars 80-86 and toms through bars 87-137.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------------x-----------|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |--x-------x-------x---x-|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
I Am Colossus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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