Ligature Marks · Meshuggah

192 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 145-146, 149 and 152-154, and 9 more places -- 13.5% 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
LIGATURE MARKS · BARS 145-146
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 16, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 61 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 32-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 33 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 80-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 100-101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 11 sections: 94 keep time, 67 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-118.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART AJ
OUTRO
7 groovesHBAQAJC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ligature Marks?

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 Ligature Marks hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ligature Marks?

11 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 16, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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