In Death - Is Life/In Death - Is Death · Meshuggah

289 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 9:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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

126 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

289

LENGTH

9:10

DIFFICULTY

66/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-80, hi-hat through bars 81-104, snare through bars 105-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-136, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 74 and 105, and 11 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    259
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x--x|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

25 fills to learn, played 206 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 200 more.

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- U, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part G and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
5. Through Part G and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 11 minutes.
9. and 22 more sittings after that.