New Millenium Cyanide Christ · meshuggah

211 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

152 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

211

LENGTH

5:32

DIFFICULTY

58/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, snare through bars 73-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-121, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 13 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxx--x--x--xxxx|--x-x---xxxx--x-|

10 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 46 more.

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 1-100 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Bars 74-98 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part A and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 33-80 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Bars 79-110 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.