I · Meshuggah

788 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 16:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
788
LENGTH
16:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 297-298, 300-301 and 303-304, and 26 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 199 BPM
I · BARS 297-298
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 93, 155, 156, 256, 257, 258 and 53 more.

LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
LOOP · 199 BPM
BARS 155-156 · LANDS ON BAR 157 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BARS 256-294 · LANDS ON BAR 295 · PLAYED 39 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BARS 297-299 · LANDS ON BAR 300 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

788 bars across 48 sections: 522 keep time, 59 are fills, 37 are stops and 106 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-41.

CHORUS
PART BD
PART S41
32 groovesAS41BDBST+27Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I?

199 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

788 bars, about 16:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 147 exercises over 64 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I?

7 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 93, 155, 156, 256, 257, 258 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 788 BARS ANALYSED
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