Meaningless Movements · Sepultura

147 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-23 and 32-35, and 10 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
MEANINGLESS MOVEMENTS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 15, 19, 27, 31, 39, 48 and 24 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 20 sections: 97 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-130.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFAICPH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meaningless Movements?

124 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 Meaningless Movements hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Meaningless Movements?

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 15, 19, 27, 31, 39, 48 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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