Kaleidoscope · Meshuggah

150 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 20 and 25, and 11 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
KALEIDOSCOPE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 44 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 17 sections: 69 keep time, 50 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-57.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
12 groovesKLMFC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kaleidoscope?

150 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 Kaleidoscope hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kaleidoscope?

25 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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